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Ursa Major & Ursa Minor

The most easily recognizable asterisms in the nightsky is the Big Dipper, Great Bear. Found in the constellation of Ursa Major. The Big Dipper is well-known around the world and goes by many names like: Plough, The Great Wagon, Saptarishi and the Sauce Pan. Ursa Minor, Little Dipper or Little Bear as its called is also in this picture, all the way at the top you can spot it with Polaris as the last star in its tail.

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Join me in mapping the night sky, find your camera and point it at the stars, take some shots and mark the constellations like i did. Use the tag #StarConstellations that way we can gather all of the 88 star constellations from around the world in one place.



Location: Jæren, Norway
Camera: Nikon P900
No filter have been used
No editing have been made to these photos
Photographer: @flatman


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Really good job man carry on thanks i like this post and your all post is very important and helpful thanks

Thank you! if you have a camera and a tripod, you should go out and take some pictures of the stars too, let us know how the stars look from your location.

what setting did you use on your camera to make this picture?

This is the settings I used for this picture:
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thank you! i don't know if i can see the stars in the city coz of light pollution, but maybe one day soon i will get out where i can see them better

or you could talk to the mayor and get him to shut off those lights just like in the simpsons

yup)) and then a bit later:

  • why didn't he like my idea?...
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This is awesome! My favourite is Orion the Libra constellation.

there is an old russian song about Great She-Bear (in russian it's 'she'), the song is about a man asking why are you always alone on the sky, where is you He-Bear?

hehehe, didn't understand much of that song :p
its cool its a "she"bear in russia :)

oh, don't tell me that you only listen the songs you can understand :p
at least, now you know, it exists :)

yes, now I know :)