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Observing Plan for the
Astronomy Merit Badge |
For each season, this plan presents major constellations in
the order they set. That gives a look at objects while they are
still in the sky.
Summer
- Ursa Major (about 9:00 pm)
- Sketch its initial position
- Alcor and Mizar
- Pointer stars
- Virgo
- Zodiacal constellation
- Spica
- Coma Berenices
- Canis Venatici
- Libra
- Bootes
- Arcturus (red/yellow star)
- Draco
- Large circumpolar constellation
- Corona Borealis
- Hercules
- Scorpius
- Zodiacal constellation
- M4
- Cephus
- Circumpolar constellation, part of a fall grouping
- Cygnus
- Albiero (yellow star and blue double star)
- Deneb
- Aquilla
- Lyra
- Vega (blue star)
- Ring Nebula
- Summer Triangle
- Asterism (Vega, Deneb, Altair)
- Milky Way
- Delphinus
- Small constellation, related to Aquilla in story)
- Sagittarius
- Zodiacal constellation
- M6
- M7
- Center of the Milky Way with its black hole
- Capricornus
- Ursa Major again (about 11 pm)
- Sketch change in position
- Ursa Minor
