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    Navigating the Spring Night Sky

    For observers in the middle The stars plotted represent those which
    northern latitudes, this chart is North can be seen from areas suffering
    suitable for late April at 10:30 from moderate light
    p.m. or early May at 10:00 p.m. Mi pollution. In larger
    Deneb lky cities, less than
    Cassiopeia W 100 stars are visible,
    ay while from dark,
    rural areas well
    over ten times
    that amount
    are found.
    Vega
    Polaris, Capella
    the North Star
    2
    8
    Auriga
    1
    The Keystone
    of Hercules

    3 Gemini
    Castor
    Betelgeuse
    The Pollux

    West
    East

    Northern Coma
    Crown 5 Berenices 4
    Star Cluster

    Arcturus Leo The Beehive


    The Sickle Star Cluster
    Denebola
    Procyon
    The
    Spring 7 Regulus
    Triangle
    5

    Spica 6

    Corvus
    Relative sizes
    and distances
    in the sky can
    be deceiving. For
    The Ecliptic represents instance, 360 "full
    the plane of the solar moons"can be placed
    system. The sun, the moon, side by side,extending from
    and the major planets all lie on or horizon to horizon.
    near this imaginary line in the sky.
    South
    Relative size of the full moon.

    Navigating the spring night sky: Simply start with what you know or with what you can easily find.
    1 Extend an imaginary line north from the two stars at the tip of the Big Dipper's bowl. It passes by Polaris, the North Star.
    2 Draw another imaginary line across the top two stars of the Dipper's bowl. It strike Capella low in the northwest.
    3 Through the two diagonal stars of the Dipper's bowl, draw a line pointing to the twin stars of Castor and Pollux in Gemini.
    4 Directly below the Dipper's bowl reclines the constellation Leo with its primary star, Regulus. The Astronomical League
    5 Follow the arc of the Dipper's handle. It first intersects Arcturus, then continues to Spica.
    6 Confirm Spica by noting that two moderately bright stars just to its southwest form a straight line with it.
    7 Arcturus, Spica, and Denebola form the Spring Triangle, a large equilateral triangle.
    8 Draw a line from Arcturus to Vega. One-third of the way sits "The Northern Crown." Two-thirds of the www.astroleague.org
    way hides the "Keystone of Hercules." A dark sky is needed to see these two dim stellar configurations.
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