learn 10 constellations

here is what I decided – I am not going to learn 10 constellations – I am going to spend my time just looking up!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ&feature=user

I just watched this – wow!

I love my life.

with a group of Boy Scouts working on their Astronomy merit badge. There I learned several new constellations. Among them were:
Sagittarius
Scorpius
Canis Minor

I can also find several new stars now:
Procyon
Deneb
Rigel
Antares

This is fun!

I know and can find quite a few of the major constellations of the Northern Hemisphere:
Ursa Major (Big Dipper)
Ursa Minor (Little Dipper)
Orion
Taurus
The Plaides
Leo
Cassieopea
Canis Major
Gemini (The Twins, aka Castor and Pollux)
I also know a few individual stars like Polaris, Arcturus, and Spica.

I can also find Crux, aka the Southern Cross, which is visible from the Southern Hemisphere. Unfortunately I don’t get down that way often enough to learn any more southern constellations.

I like the idea of combining this goal with my walking goal. After all, most of the time I do my walking at night. I do a lot of stargazing in the winter months when it gets dark kind of early.

I think that leaning to find a few more constellations would prove to be a good challenge.

Telescope came yesterday, I am hoping to be able to correctly identlfy 10 constellations and background history in a few weeks :)

I went and bought a book today on all 88 constellations. My telescope is on order and hopefully in the next month i can cross this one off my life list as well. I really find astronomy fascinating….so hopefully my stuff gets here soon!!!