Star Finder! A Step-by-Step Guide to the Night Sky

On a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere, you can see some 3,000 stars with the naked eye alone. When you look up at the stars, you are following a tradition that goes back thousands of years. As they tried to understand what they were seeing, people of ancient cultures looked up at the night sky and searched for patterns in the stars, eventually creating the ultimate “dot to dot.” They formed characters, animals, and objects from these patterns and made up stories about them that have been passed down through generations. By creating these patterns, called constellations, the stars were transformed from random dots into recognizable shapes that can be used to help us navigate our way through the night sky and down here on Earth. With this book, you can follow in the footsteps of your ancestors by discovering the constellations and using them to hop from star to star and appreciate the beauty of the heavens.