Following on from our last class together, today Gwendolyn and I looked through my Photographic Atlas of the Stars and discussed the various constellations. Some constellations are more reminiscent of what they're intended to represent, whereas for others one needs a lot of imagination. We chose a constellation - Canis Major - and taped fluorescent stars on the wall in the same pattern. We also taped the names of the stars next to them, and in the process learned that the brightest star in Canis Major is Sirius, and it' salsa the (apparent) brightest star in the northern sky. Gwendolyn also learned that you need Greek, Arabic, and Latin when talking about constellations!