Star groups like the Big Dipper

Usage examples of constellations.

Both scales are marked off in degrees and this dial could show the annual motion of the sun in the zodiac and the main risings and settings of bright stars and constellations throughout the year.

The fifty lines fanning out at the bottom show the destinations of the spaceships and, in some cases, the star constellations as they would appear from Perseus.

The groups of dots at the end of some of the lines represent the various star constellations of their destinations as they would be seen from Gamma Persei.

Polynesians knew the constellations of the stars and their positions in relation to certain islands.

At certain times of the year, the constellations depicted would nearly fit some of those seen in the skies.

A splendid example of a true star-swarm is furnished by Chi Persei, in that part of the Milky Way which runs between the constellations Perseus and Cassiopeia.

The result of the studies devoted to this subject is to show that we are traveling at a speed of twelve to fifteen miles per second in a northerly direction, toward the border of the constellations Hercules and Lyra.

In the forms of the constellations, the most beautiful, and, in imaginative quality, the finest, mythology that the world has ever known has been perpetuated.

To emphasize the importance of these effects it is only necessary to recall that the constellations register the oldest traditions of our race.

Here the temples all evidently refer to a cult based upon the constellations as symbols.

Thus the imagination of ancient America sought in the constellations symbols of the unchanging gods.

Professor Young has significantly remarked that a great number of the constellations are connected in some way or other with the Argonautic Expedition -- that strangely fascinating legend of earliest Greek story which has never lost its charm for mankind.

The constellations are more or less familiar to everybody, so that impending changes of their forms must at once strike the eye and the imagination, and make clearer the significance of the movements of the stars.

The blaze of the constellations overhead was astonishingly brilliant, yet amid all their magnificence my attention was immediately drawn to a great tapering light that sprang from the place on the horizon where the sun would rise later, and that seemed to be blown out over the stars like a long, luminous veil.

Two golden moons climbed into the heavens, and hosts of countless stars broke forth in a glory of unfamiliar constellations that rivaled the soft, throbbing lights of the city.