Favorite constellation?

scroob wrote in
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Mine are Scorpius and Sagittarius. Had some fine views of both about
midnight tonight.

I remember when I was 14 and newly interested in astronomy. I had a
star map, and stayed up late every summer night learning the summer
constellations. I'll never forget the first time I saw Pegasus in the
eastern sky - I'd memorized it for weeks before I ever saw it.

I can see Pegasus rising in the east again as I type this. It took me
back. Summer just got here and the first harbinger of fall is already
creeping up. The years really do seem to go by faster as you get
older. Maybe it's because you know you are running out of them.


My top three would be Orion, Scorpius and Crux. Orion and the Southern
Cross are ones I remember learning about first as a kid.

LK.






LK.