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mickoking
19-08-2006, 08:21 PM
When we look up at night we can see some constellations that look like what they are sposed to be, eg Scorpious looks like a Scorpion and Leo does resemble a lion. But to be honest most star pattens really don't look even remotely like what they represent. What constellations are the worst culprits?
I can't really visualise a furnace when I look at Fornax? maybe it's my lack of imagination :P
h0ughy
19-08-2006, 09:14 PM
in a city nearly everything, but telescopium takes the cake!
dugnsuz
19-08-2006, 11:22 PM
Bloody Octans...
I can't imagine a constellation, never mind a celestial pole when I look at this one!! (Usually in a wierd position trying to look through a polar scope)
Thank her godness for the compass.
Cheers
Doug
Shawn
20-08-2006, 10:14 AM
From here ,,, Ursa Minor:P
[1ponders]
20-08-2006, 11:58 AM
Canis Minor. Two stars joined by a line represents a dog :eyepop: c'mon :rolleyes:
Shawn
20-08-2006, 02:27 PM
:rofl:
ballaratdragons
20-08-2006, 05:05 PM
And what about Circunus. You can't tell me it represents a Circus or a Circus Tent! I've never seen a tent with a roof pitch that sharp!!! :lol:
And where's the Elephants?
astro_nutt
20-08-2006, 05:57 PM
Also...when does a teapot resemble a half man-half horse???...musta hada lota cheap wine in those days!!..LOL!
Volans
20-08-2006, 08:08 PM
Corvus...a square crow? Caelum...a chisel? (blunt one at that) Horologium...now that's a dodgy clock for sure. Musca...proof positive that pesticides muck about with DNA. Volans....one would need to inhale certain substances to get that one!
Tony Leece
21-08-2006, 12:45 AM
For me its ALL Southern constellations:shrug: I have been here since november and still can't visualise any of the buggers and the ones i do know are the wrong way up:whistle:
Tony........
ballaratdragons
21-08-2006, 01:25 AM
Yes Tony, they do tend to look upside down when you come here to the top of the Earth :whistle:
Tony Leece
21-08-2006, 02:41 AM
'Top of the earth'.... Oh dear, that proves it , i don't know me arse from me elbow:shrug:
:D
Tony.............
OneOfOne
21-08-2006, 08:07 AM
I think the easiest answer would be all of them except the ones that are pretty obvious, like Crux, Orion, Scorpious and not many others. Maybe they were easier to recognise in the "olden days" when the sky had a lot more stars:( Like join the dots with half the dots missing.
mickoking
21-08-2006, 11:05 AM
I am not sure how you get a Poop from Puppis? Drugs?? and lets not forget Sextans :P
all of them!
hydra is pretty easy tho :)
who makes these things up!!! the aboriginal ones are much easier to see!
jjjnettie
21-08-2006, 11:21 AM
Maybe if they WERE on drugs at the time, they would have come up with something better than what they did. lol
ballaratdragons
21-08-2006, 01:15 PM
Hehe, like these for example: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=987&highlight=constellations
mickoking
21-08-2006, 08:52 PM
I have a few of my own constellations that stand out for me. Corvus Major and the Spring-Y help me navigate for deep sky objects but the Water sprinkler was the result of too much alchohol :P
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