What is your favorite constellation?

Question

mine is Orion

Answer 1

Pleades or "the 7 sisters". You can't even see it around city lights, it's so tiny, kinda shaped like a minerature big dipper. It's a star cluster (minerature galaxy). I consider it very lucky to see it, because it's so hard to find...and once in a while I just look up and there it is. I think it's between Orion and the big W (caseopea) and visible when you can see both. Although it's hard to find, when you do find it use a binoculars and it will jump out at you. The stars are actually very bright but dwarf and they look like blue diamonds in settings of other lesser stars, like a crown or tiara.

Answer 2

Without a doubt, I cast my vote for Orion. Orion has always fascinated mankind. The great Pyramids of Giza are laid out in exact correlation to the belt stars of Orion in the year 10,500 BC. It's interesting to note that in that year the Sphinx gazed at the heliacal rising of the constellation Leo on the Spring Equinox. It was the Age of Leo, and Orion was at its northernmost position in relation to the Giza Plateau. Also, Orion was the heavenly home of Osiris, while his Sister-Wife Isis is associated with the Dog Star Sirius. The ancient Egyptians called Orion the home of the gods. What were they trying to pass down to us?

Answer 3

Just to be different, I'll say Lepus, the Hare. It's directly under Orion and composed of fairly dim stars which are hardly visible from a city. But in dark sky conditions, it really does look like a rabbit...side view in mid jump. I like it because it looks so much like what it's supposed to be...and also because it's a rare treat to see it that way.

Honable mentions would be Scorpius, Saggitarius and, oh heck, Orion.

Answer 4

Orion the hunter.

Answer 5

Ursa major is situated near the north pole of the heavens, and contains the stars forming the Big Dipper two of which are in a line indicating the direction of the North Star aka Great Bear

Answer 6

toss up between Orion & the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. Orion cause one of the stars [the middle star in the "sword"] isn't even a star, it's a star factory or nebula, and the Pleiades cause they're (relatively) newborn stars just out of their factory.

Answer 7

Without even reading your choice my favorite choice is Orion. Unfortunately you can't see it all year, but I love looking at it in the clear cold winter sky.

Answer 8

Orion is mine also. I have a large tattoo or Orions belt on my lower back. :-)

Answer 9

Orion without a doubt...

I've got it as a tattoo

Answer 10

Orion

As it straddles the celestial equator it is equally visible from most sites in the N Hemisphere and S Hemisphere. Always rising high in the sky, its stars are always bright and nobody can mistake those three stars in a line, reprsenting his belt.

Second is Scorpius. It is my sign, it rises to overhead in my country, and it really does look like a scorpion, with that curled up tail.