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**WA0CKY** · #5 April 13th 17, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mandy Liefbowitz

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:26:08 +0100, WA0CKY
wrote:

Alignments like these 4 stars are very common and usually quite
meaningless as they are just coincidental. When working in the Milky
Way as this image does, there are so many stars such accidental
alignments are to be expected. I find nothing to indicate these are
anything but such a coincidental alignment.

True enough. In many images, I see perfect circles of stars that are
probably all unrelated to one another. Some images have scores of
circles. Some have score of lines, triangles, Faux-Orions and other
accidental asterisms.
As you say, there are *lots* of stars out there.

Still, that line-up is neat. Maybe it needs a name? Wa0cky's Quartet?
Rick's Ruler?
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As I mentioned such asterisms litter the sky. Probably the most famous linear one is Kemble’s Cascade. An unnamed 4 star line of brighter but wider spaced stars cross it with one also a part of Kemble’s Cascade. http://oneminuteastronomer.com/5176/kembles-cascade/

The human brain is hard wired to see such figures in stars, window stains, toast, clouds, whatever. You can even write your name in galaxies. http://mygalaxies.co.uk/

Rick