Starting at Merak, draw a line through Megrez, Alioth and Mizar and you’ll come to the constellation Hercules. It’s not especially bright and it may take you a few tries to see it. If you come to a bright, white star, that’s Vega, the brightest…
By now, the Big Dipper is low on the northern horizon, but if you draw a line through Merak and Dubhe to Polaris and continue on, you’ll come to Cassiopeia. It’s high over Polaris, and looks like a large, crooked W in the sky. Draw…
By now, the Big Dipper has moved around to the east of Polaris. Draw a line through Megrez and Merak and you’ll come to two bright stars. Known as Castor and Pollux, these are the brightest stars in the constellation Gemini, the Twins. Yet we…