Constellations

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15 constellations and 20 stars

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Pisces

Start at great square and then look for small oval pattern that make up one fish. Find V shape

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<p>Aquarius</p>

Aquarius

Start at great square, go south, look for y shape. Pisces is left of it

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Taurus

Start at Orion’s belt and trace right most star of belt. Pleiades is right above it. Taurus is a V shape

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<p>Aries</p>

Aries

Find pleiades and go 20 degrees right

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Pegasus

Schematic is where legs come out, enif is nose, markab is base of neck, attached to markab is Algenib which is the bottom and the other star below schematic is alpheratz

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Cassiopeia

Caph is far left, then Schedar is highest, next highest is Ruchbacch and then most right is Segin

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Orion

Bottom of belt is Alnitak, middle is alnilam, next is mintaka. Up from mintaka is Bellatrix and up from Alnitak is betelgeuse. Below mintaka is rigel and below Alnitak is saiph

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Andromeda

Head is Alpheratz in great square

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Ursa minor

Polaris is north star, closest guardian star to Polaris is Kochab and next is pherkad

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Cepheus

Between Cassiopeia and polaris

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Lyra

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Cygnus

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Aquila

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Perseus

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Aquarius

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Sagittarius