I really like looking at the stars on a
clear night. It’s something that I’ve always done, going way back to summer
nights at our old cottage where my Dad taught me to find the Big Dipper,
(known to me as ‘the pot’), Orion (‘the hourglass’) Cassiopeia (the big ‘W’) and Sagittarius
(‘the teapot’).
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| My dad posing for his profile pic |
But that was like 20 years ago, and those
four constellations are still the only ones I know. Google just told me that
there are EIGHTY EIGHT constellations in total. 4/88 is fail.
With the help of my Star-gazing app on my
iPhone (which KILLS the battery but comes with vaguely space-y ambient sounds,
so...worth it), I finally found another constellation I can identify in the
night sky:
THE BACKWARDS QUESTIONMARK! also there's a bunch of other junk trailing off of it
but the most important part is the BACKWARDS QUESTION MARK!
AKA Leo. It’s not nearly as obvious as the
Big Dipper up in the sky, but once you know where it is, you are good. The biggest
star is called Regulus, if you really want to impress and annoy your friends.
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| I didn't want to get sued by the internet so I just made my own Leo model in paint . Textbook accuracy |
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