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Originally Posted by nightstalker
were looking for the constellation leo .. its quite large and partly resembles basic outline a boat to me .. I think saturns in the back of the boat somewhere..anyway we want the bow ..marked by a single star to east.whats conspicuous about this piece of sky in front of the point of the bow is there appears to be nothing there..
An easy planetary is in corvus I have to agree with whoever said this constellation looks like a shopping trolley it really does 
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Well, I guess that's why there are so many seemingly far-fetched associations with star patterns and imagery, be it mythological or otherwise. I'd never heard of Leo as a boat before, but on my evening walk I could see some sort of resemblance: I suppose that single star in the east you refer to is Denebola? From the Northern Hemisphere though, this constellation really is quite sphinx-like, or resembling a crouching lion.
As for the supermarket trolley, aka Corvus the Crow, one can only ask why the ancients never saw that likeness themselves....!
Cheers, Darryl.