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When the Plough and Cassiopeia are known, we have two valuable guides one to each side of the Pole, and two more are given by the bright stars Vega and Capella, one on each side of a line drawn from ...
A line drawn through the two stars of the Plough which are parallel with the 'Pointers,' passes between two of the brightest stars belonging to Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, a constellation which is ...
The Plough is only part of a constellation called Ursa Major, forming the loins and tail of the Great Bear; the rest of the body is composed of little stars.
The constellation best known in Britain is called by astronomers Ursa Major; its chief stars suggest the form of a Plough - its popular name in Britain; or sometimes 'Charles's Wain' - or of a Great ...
In this constellation there are two very bright stars. The brighter, a reddish star called Aldebaran, is the Bull's eye, and is low down among a V-shaped cluster of little stars called the Hyades.
A short distance below the Crown a little triangle of stars will be seen, from which a long line of stars curves downwards in a rough semicircle in the direction of Altair.
The three right-hand stars of Cetus point down to a bright star - below Aquarius and not far above the horizon - called Fomalhaut, in the constellation of Piscis Australis.