Saturday, September 10, 2011

How many stars are not part of any constellation?

For my astronomy class I need to know how many stars there are that are not a part of any constellation. Thank you for your help!|||Only one star is not located in any constellation: the Sun.



[Edit] The Sun appears to move from constellation to constellation around the zodiac, but is not part of any constellation. All other stars, visible or not, are located within the boundaries of one constellation or another.|||Constellations are imaginary lines drawn in the sky. They are not real entities.



Since constellations are only an arbitrary reference guide for locating things in the sky, whether or not a star 'belongs' to the constellation depends on your definition of 'belong'. In a physical sense, no star belongs to any constellation, because constellations aren't real. In a map-making sense, stars belong to whichever constellation has its imaginary lines nearby.|||I don't ho home work or school work for kids, the teachers give you these things so you can learn for to figure out the answers to the questions, and sure you can ask others for the right answers, but in the process you didn't learn nothing.


What are you going to do when you get out in the real world and a job and the boss needs you to get the answers to things, and you will have no idea of how to go about getting the right answers, and do you think the boss is going to give you time to get on the internet to get the right answer from some one out there.


I suggest you get a job that you don't have to get any answers.


How will you do with a low paying job where you don't have to think, just do.





I'm just glad I will not be in your shoes|||One known star, the Sun. Other unknown stars. There are also stars which only have catalogue numbers such as HIP 42082, but they're assigned to constellations because there is no part of the sky which isn't covered by a constellation. For instance, the one i just chose is in Cancer.|||Officially, none. The constellations are defined by the International Astronomical Union as areas of the sky, and every position on the sky is part of one and only one constellation.|||As viewed from earth, all stars are assigned by the IAU to a constellation.|||Billions and billions.





There are only some 3,000 stars visible to the eye in any hemisphere.|||even all of the stars we can't see, still have a RA and DEC within the borders of a constalltaion|||zero





the entire celestial sphere is covered by the 88 constallations|||Trust Geoff G, the answer is one, the Sun.|||about 450 sextillion



in our galaxy, about 100-400 billion



EDIT: your question did not say visible stars

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