Prologue

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Prologue

• Charting the Heavens

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Little Dipper
Polaris
Cassiopeia
Big Dipper
Pointer Stars
North
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Pegasus
Andromeda
Great Square of Pegasus
East
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Overhead
Deneb
Vega
Lyra
Cygnus
Altair
Aquila
South
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Bootes
Arcturus
West
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Polaris
North
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Constellations

• Constellations - a visual grouping of stars
• Asterism - a smaller group of stars
• Stars labelled in order of brightness

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