Quite a few stars were visible in the last big blackout, though between trees and buildings I wasn't well placed to hunt constellations. Had the building impromptu party been on the roof instead of the sidewalk, I might have.
That, of course, isn't relevant to most days. (No, I am not going to go up to the top of Inwood Hill Park, sit in the meadow, and wait for nightfall: I don't like the idea of taking some of those paths downhill in the dark, even with companions: it's falls I'm worried about, not muggers.)
There are constellations that lots of people have known or cared about, and then there are some more artificial ones that were invented by European astronomers or explorers to divide the southern sky or fill in gaps. Maybe those are the "former" constellations.
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Date: 2010-07-04 05:42 pm (UTC)That, of course, isn't relevant to most days. (No, I am not going to go up to the top of Inwood Hill Park, sit in the meadow, and wait for nightfall: I don't like the idea of taking some of those paths downhill in the dark, even with companions: it's falls I'm worried about, not muggers.)
There are constellations that lots of people have known or cared about, and then there are some more artificial ones that were invented by European astronomers or explorers to divide the southern sky or fill in gaps. Maybe those are the "former" constellations.