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Main translation: Tian Yu

Wang Yuyang proofreading

Editor: Yu

Backstage: Courtlia, Li, Xu Jiukun, Hu Yongqiao.

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After the rain clears, if you look up at the sky at sunset in the evening, you can see the bright star triangle-the summer triangle. Summer Triangle is the first knowledge about stars that Japanese science students learn in the fourth grade, so it is very popular with children. But by the fifth grade, I basically forgot all about it.

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In late July, in the evening when plum blossoms are in full bloom, we can see the midsummer triangle hanging high in the eastern sky. Among the stars that make up this triangle, the brightest shining star is Vega, which is called "Falling Eagle". Next to Vega, there are two dim stars. When they are connected, they look like an eagle falling from the sky with its wings broken.

If you extend from a star in a triangle containing Vega and connect them here into a parallelogram, the arrangement of stars looks like a fish.

Speaking of which, someone will definitely think of "Pisces!" Unfortunately, this is Lila.

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Separated from Vega by the Milky Way is Altair, surrounded by three stars, which can be regarded as the posture of an eagle flying in the sky, that is, the "flying eagle". In this area, you can see the posture of an eagle transformed by Zeus, which is Aquila.

Swan constellation

The last star left in the summer triangle is Tianjin IV, and its English Tianjin IV comes from the Arabic word "tail". Tianjin IV is a word that frequently appears in proper nouns of stars. You'd better write it down. Stretching out from Tianjin IV, lined up with the stars in the abdomen, head and mouth, and then extended from the abdomen to the wings, a big white bird-swan appeared.

Cygnus is one of the constellations with beautiful arrangement of stars. In the clear sky where you can see the Milky Way, the beautiful swan flew away.

04 Scorpion

Swan flies south along the Milky Way. In front of it, you can see a red 1 antares, which means "something hostile to Mars". Antares is similar to Mars in color and brightness. Mars will pass near the zodiac, just like the old enemy of Antares. Connecting the stars around Antares into an "S" shape is the famous Scorpio.

Scorpio is also one of the constellations with beautiful arrangement of stars. Because half of the body is soaked in the Milky Way, there are many bright stars, which is a lively constellation.

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Let's look at the left and east of Scorpio.

It may be difficult for people to find it in the city sky. There are six stars here that make up a small spoon. They are the six stars in the southern bucket, as well as the Big Dipper. But because it is small and dim, it only appears at the low altitude in the south, far less than the Big Dipper.

Winding along the two stars of the handle of the six-star spoon in Nandou, this is the shape of a "bow" in the eyes of westerners. Holding this bow is Sagittarius, showing the attitude of centaur, centaur and centaur.

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Next, the constellations that can be seen in the clear sky and planetarium are introduced.

Connecting the brightest Vega in the summer triangle with the brightest arcturus in the spring constellation, we can see that the three stars are arranged from south to north in the center. It is Hercules, the brave, that is, Hercules who connects the stars around it in the shape of "H". The star on its head is a third-class star called the emperor.

Just south of the throne, there is a second-class star called Hou, which is the head of Ophiuchus. This star, Vega and Altair can also form a huge triangle, which is sometimes misunderstood as the "pseudo-summer triangle".

07 Libra

On the right side of Scorpio, that is, in the west, the third-class stars are arranged in a tiny triangle-Libra. Because there are no particularly bright stars, it is difficult to find this constellation, but once found, it is easy to find the arrangement of its stars.

Note: This content is a re-editing of the website "Planning on the Mountain" published on April 20 10.