Question: How can you spot constolastions like the bear,Orian and his belt oh by the way one more question what is the bear called

Grant Kennedy answered on 19 Mar 2013:

Some constellations are really hard to see at night, it makes you wonder what the people who first named them were thinking! Some of this difficulty is because in cities it’s never really that dark due to too many lights around, so the best way to spot them is to get out into the country. This is what the bear, called Ursa Major (larger bear in Latin), looks like:

Orion is a fairly easy one because it has three bright stars lined up very nicely (his belt) and three more nearby (his sword). It looks like this:

You won’t always be able to see these constellations though, just like the Sun isn’t always up, neither are particular stars and constellations. For constellations their visibility at night changes throughout the year because the Earth is moving around the Sun, so at night we’re looking at different parts of the sky.

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