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Here in Perth we can't see all of the "Big Dipper.," so it doesn't get called anything. The bits we can see, mainly the Bear's legs, are just belonging to Ursa Major. That's when anyone even remembers that its there below Leo... The short story is that it rarely even rates on the radar for us.
The biggest trouble I have is getting people to realise that the Saucepan in Orion is NOT the Big Dipper. And then to confuse things I have met some older people who were taught that the Saucepan was the Little Dipper, so there is a lot of confusion over what is what down here. I do my best to explain that they are quite different asterisms when I get the chance.
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