Thread: how to watch the stars in the summer sky

An interesting new thread has appeared on Twitter. He explains how to navigate the night sky and learn to see the constellations. Here's what you can see until 1 am in late June - mid-July:

1. if you look at the sky as soon as it gets dark, you will first of all see three very bright stars on the opposite side from the bear. it is a summer triangle consisting of the alpha stars of the swan, lyre and eagle (deneb, vega, altair, respectively) pic.twitter.com/xLbXEfXjV7

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5. these three constellations are the easiest to navigate. if you are lucky and you see the milky way, then follow it with your gaze to the horizon to the right; if not, then mentally connect the swan and the lyre and continue this line. we ran into the zodiac, namely the archer.

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6. it is right on the milky way, moreover, there is the center of the galaxy (but this is not so important). it looks like a KETTLE. it is enough to catch a couple of stars with a glance to see the lid, handle and nose (and in a good sky, the Milky Way rises like steam from the nose).

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7. if you look to the right, then you will stumble upon another star that is visible in any sky - a bright red antares. this is the very middle of the scorpion, upward it goes into the "legs" - three bright segments, and downward - into a long tail with a sting, which, however, is now almost beyond the horizon. pic.twitter.com/QYRNIWhwVW

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8. we continue to go to the right - the scales are next. they look like scales. But seriously, next to the scorpion's legs there is a rather bright obtuse-angled triangle, from which two lines go down, like hooks for bowls (there are no bowls). pic.twitter.com/dCUPR2hjjk

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9. Virgo is walking along the same line (logically, the zodiac is the same) - a very large and indistinct constellation that does not have memorable contours, so it is enough to know that a very bright star there is spica (one of the brightest in the northern sky), and the stars of the virgin go to the next bright one - denebols. pic.twitter.com/CeYnOLISyN

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11. Let's go back a little to the left and higher - in a good sky there is Veronica's hair, as if sprinkled with sugar, a pale cluster, not the most interesting kmk. before the bear there will be only hounds, but these are literally two stars - and, in fact, the bear. (cm. prev. picchu)

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12. the second star from the end of the handle is a myzar, a double star. in the Middle Ages, it was used to determine whether it was possible to take a person into the arrows - a person with perfect vision saw not only the mittsar, but also the alcor nearby. Now is not the Middle Ages, the sky is darker and the eyesight is worse, but through binoculars - easily! pic.twitter.com/TG9VJqhDOA

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13. a guide for those who do not know how to look for the little bear: we draw a line between the right stars of the bucket - and up (or to the right, the main thing is, as it were, in a wide direction) to a bright star. this is a polar pole, it is at the end of the handle of the bucket that revolves around it, it is small and like inside out. pic.twitter.com/2f8PbWj0Ov

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14. both bears are surrounded by a dragon, it is not very bright and very large, so I will say about the head - this is strange a quadrangle on the right side of the Ursa Minor, then it goes upward like a snake, passes between the bears - it's worth trying to find.

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15. if you see all this as it is written, it is now ten o'clock in the evening, so we lift our heads up and look at the zenith. not far from b. bears, to the left, a very bright red star is arcturus, alpha bootes. from this star it goes up like a kite. pic.twitter.com/7OZswRPn59

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All this can be seen until about mid-July, then other constellations can be observed in Russia (although what is at its zenith will not go anywhere by the end of summer).

23. * clapping * my favorite piece of heaven !!!
sometimes Greek myths help to navigate the constellations - almost a quarter of the sky is occupied by the myth of Perseus. passing to the left and looking up from the zodiac, we find ourselves in a pegasus.

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24. There are two ways to watch Pegasus: childish and serious. childish means that the pegasus is a large square with silly little wings. serious - that these are legs that continue, and also has a neck and a head, and the outlines are quite horsey. pic.twitter.com/EEFeIJpJji

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25. the bottom leftmost star of the pegasus is shared with the andromeda. many stars enter it, but the easiest way is to see it at a very obtuse angle, from the top of which eh the bisector of three stars emerges. pic.twitter.com/gsI55JKFxA

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27. left again - cassiopeia. hardly anyone does not know the Cassiopeia, because in the middle latitudes it is tall and bright, like a bear, but still: a pronounced double. pic.twitter.com/u5Xech2AYY

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29. Perseus from all this company comes out of the last and will stand high in August. it is just below and to the left of the andromeda, looks like a fork with two prongs, and from special signs - a bright red star algol. pic.twitter.com/bRoHE5FnFi

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This is just a fraction of what you can see - a complete guide to the most prominent constellations in the original thread.