I live 55 degrees north and can jump around the sky greeting old friends. I went to New Zealand last year (their summer) and the skies were magnificent, but I was lost. It made me sad. Although, I did get a kick out of seeing The Southern Cross.
Tonight I saw Sirius and thought "what is that really bright star that I don't know the name of?" 2 hours later here I am, learning a bunch, and this is the best video ever. Thank you. :)
hint It often helpful to look right at sunset.Not as many stars are as visible and many of the constellations seems just to pop out. once you have seen them it becomes a lot easier. I always thought the winter sky is the easiest of all.
I'd never thought about Hercules looking like a butterfly 🦋 but it does! Unfortunately it's not very bright and you'll be lucky to see it from light polluted areas but fairly easy in dark places.I was brought up in South Africa and saw the Southern Cross nearly every night can't see it anymore due to living in Europe now.Last time i saw it i was in New Zealand about 4 years ago.
Great video, I like the seasons symbols. Can I just suggest you something? Videos about shutting stars, twinkling stars to sum up videos on those other little useful things. Thanks again.
Many thanks for this interesting video. I used to watch night stars all summer while sleeping on top of our village house (in the 60s). I am pretty used to those patterns. Once I had an unusual sight; I saw a pair of "stars" that suddenly moved bumping into each other back and forth about two times followed by big explosion. The light of collision at earth was strong enough that my sister who was sitting and looking downwards felt it and asked what was it? That was in 1966 or 1967. It was right above my head at about 9 PM (North Iraq). I am still curious what could that have been. I believe they were some closer objects than far away stars. Any thoughts? The big dipper was slightly to my north west at the time. The whole event lasted about one second.
Hi. I live in the Seychelles, 5° South of the equator. So the southern hemisphere or the ecliptical zone or even the celestial equator is what I enjoy at night. If that's a thing. Just found your videos yesterday, and it's fascinating. I've been trying to identify the southern crux because, from my perspective, there's two cross like feature, very close to each other in that region.
I'm doing a course on celestial navigation. Your videos really help to keep in mind where all the asterisms, stars, and their names are located when looking up. Tnx.
This particular video is very helpful for novice astrophotographers like myself in locating points of interest in the night sky. For example using the asymmetrical 'W' of Cassiopeia and the square of Pegasus to locate the Andromeda Galaxy. Great video thank you!
Very useful; a great way to navigate the stars. You clearly put a lot of work into these uploads, so thank you and well done. Just in case folk might be confused, a planet (probably Jupiter, maybe Saturn overexposed) is transiting Taurus at 5:47 , far outshining its principal orange-red star Aldebaran aka "the red eye of the bull". When I saw that image of Taurus I thought for a second "what the heck is that bright star?" As to pronunciations, I intend the following as constructive comment, not pedantry. They are international norms in Astronomy. The constellation Boötes is pronounced "boo-OH-teez (the umlaut over the *second* "o" (not the first, as shown in your upload) provides the clue). The star Regulus is always pronounced with a hard "g". No astronomical source I know of has it with a soft "g". Canes Venatici is conventionally pronounced "key-neez vuh-NAT-uh-sahy"; Coma Berenices "koh-muh bEr-uh-NAHY-seez"; and Auriga "aw-RHAY-guh". Best wishes, and do keep them coming!
The Winter Hexagon is very tricky to get photographs of, I have tried for years but you need to be in a very dark area away from light pollution and open areas without trees and clear skies. But even so trying to get the right angle to get it makes it a challenge.
I didn't include it because I have never been able to identify it. The stars are so faint which makes it a challenge to find. You are of course correct that Camelopardalis is a circumpolar constellation.
*Auriga is pronounced /aw-ˈrī-gə/ and Canes Venatici /ˈkā-ˌneez-və-ˈna-tə-ˌsī/. Boötes is pronounced /bō-ˈō-teez/. An umlaut above a letter means the letter is read separately. In Latin technical words the letter **_i_** at the end is normally pronounced /ī/ as is in radii, Gemini, apha Tauri, etc.; ae is usually pronounced /ee/ as in Aurigae, formulae, etc.*
Got it lol. Its Scorpius. Asterism is the fish hook. Saw it once in the summer and since i havent seen it again i thought it was my active imagination. So glad to know I was able to identify something in the maze of the sky. Thanks to Learn the Sky for this wonderful rich information about our amazing stupefying universe.
I have many astro books that I love, however, the top two for me are 365 Starry Nights by Chet Raymo and Field Guide to the Night Sky by National Audubon Society.
This is a GREAT video I've been wanting something like this for a long time, so informative thank you so much. Astronomy is my favorite science and books can only do so much to teach knowledge that needs to be passed down.
I just found your channel and it’s amazing. Thanks for the great work you do. I know it’s northern hemisphere focused, but I’d love some more southern hemisphere content if possible. Or some mentions of when and if viewing can be seen in the southern hemisphere alongside the northern hemisphere dates when you state them. Thanks again.
I'm getting to the point where I've made videos on most of the northern sky, and the southern constellations that are the only ones left for me to do. I get nervous making videos about constellations that I can only see through pictures and videos...but at the same time it will be great practice for when I get a chance to observe from the southern hemisphere.
I made up a asterism called The Northern Butterfly. It's consists of Etamin from Draco, Dubhe from Ursa Major, Polaris from Ursa Minor, Shedar from Cassiopeia, Beta Camelo from Camelopardlis, and Alderamin from Cepheus
I like this! Constellations and asterisms are really manmade concepts, so whatever we need to do to help us remember the position of the stars is a positive thing. One activity I do with my students is to have them create their own constellations and create a story about it.
human soul -constellations of moon (27+1) - human hormones their inter relation ship , needs more information , if u can help it will great , trinity principle , heart -soul -mind , this is present in all major religions of our planet , in hinduism soul -eswara, heart -vishnu, mind is - lord brahma only temple for him is in pushkar rajasthan india ( not brahman), i always wonder how our ancestors have delved on these ideas and concepts , i mean how they got these ideas , looks to me always great , u are too good
You saw pictures of the night sky as it was at that time. With asymmetrical you probably mean rotated which happens throughout the night, you probably just aren't used to the shown orientations.
