As the author remarks in his introduction to the book, "The ability to recognize the more brilliant stars and to locate the more conspicuous constellations or star groups, is both an interesting ...

Constellations are just groupings of stars used to identify a region of the sky. Some of our constellations predate written records, and most originally came from the myths and legends of ...

If you have learned about the patterns of stars in the sky, you may also have learned to identify particular configurations or constellations like the Big Dipper or Orion’s Belt.