I am doing an activity where i have to measure the angle's between stars in the orion constellation (such as betelgeuse, bellatrix, rigel, and sirius) with a "cross staff" that we made. Our angles that we computed have to be compared to the actual angles, but i can not find these measured angles anywhere.
Do you know where i could find these angles?|||Any good planetarium software will give you these angles. I hope you realize that Sirius is not part of Orion; it belongs in Canis Major.|||I don't know where the angles between particular stars can be found, but you can look up their coordinates in wikipedia or wherever and use the Pythagorean theorem to calculate distance between them. Or you could use star charts and measure the distance with a paper ruler made to show degrees at the same scale as the chart.|||Betelguese to Bellatrix 7d32m
Bellatrix to Rigel 14d47m
Rigel to Saiph 8d20m
Saiph to Sirius 15d38m
Betelguese to Alnitak 10d01m
Alnitak to Bellatrix 9d10m
Bellatrix to Mintaka 6d52m
Mintaka to Rigel 9d01m
How's that?|||calculate them from published coordinates.
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