Constellation?

How many are there?|||There are 88 official constellations dividing up the sky. That said, there is nothing to stop you from making up your own from the patterns you see in the sky. The constellations do not describe any shared property of the included stars, but are simply a byproduct of perspective from the Earth's point of view. Two stars which appear close together may be many hundreds of light years apart in reality.|||88 official ones.|||what they said!!! ;}