Tuesday, September 13, 2011

What would make a good constellation?

I have to draw a constellation as a science project. Any ideas? Id prefer something easy to draw cuz i cant draw.|||Well I have the perfect one for you. I call it the "Great Half Circle". It is a great half-circle stretching over most of the sky. Well actually I think it's more like a third of a circle, but whatever. It's made of mostly bright stars, so it's easy to pick out. I can't tell you what other constellations it may cross, because I'm not good at picking them out. Personally I think they had to be stoned to see pictures in the stars. I look up at the sky and I can see like 5 different things that look like dippers. Which one is the big dipper? Who knows!|||good constellations like like what they are suppose to be





scorpious looks like a big scorpion with a bright red eye





leo looks like a kitty cat





crux looks like a cross





cassiopeia looks like a w. this is really cool.|||Are you supposed to use real stars? If so, look at a star chart and try to ignore the lines that may be on it. Look for anything that looks like a follow-the-dots picture of anything you want. Chevrolet logo, gas pump nozzle, oak leaf, anything. Then try to duplicate the star positions and relative brightness on your paper and draw the lines you want to use. They don't have to look much like the thing at all. Relatively few of the real constellations look anything like what they supposedly represent. Cygnus is probably the best. Well, that and Crux, in the southern hemisphere. Orion's not bad. One has to use a lot of imagination on some of the others.





Try not to have it take up too much of the sky. Typical constellation sizes can be seen on the star chart.





Tina mentioned Scorpius, too, which is pretty good when traced out.|||How about the Space Shuttle constellation? Very cool, flying across the sky.

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