• Question: What is your favourite constellation?

    Asked by anon-246126 to Sam, Samantha, Nicol, Lori-Ann, Liam, David on 11 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Lori-Ann Foley

      Lori-Ann Foley answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      My favourite constellation is Orion, because there is a nebula in it which can be just seen by the eye and looks even better through binoculars. And if you get a chance to look at it through a telescope it’s amazing (IMHO). 🙂

    • Photo: David Sobral

      David Sobral answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      Orion is super cool. However, the constellation of Sextans is where I have found the most number of super distant galaxies, including COSMOS Redshift 7 (CR7; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_Redshift_7), MASOSA, COLA1 and thousands of other galaxies that existed between 11 and 13 billion years ago. I think that makes Sextans my favourite. Check out https://youtu.be/tKb2osj3nkU in case you want to see a cool zoom in that we did and why this part of the sky has allowed so many discoveries!

    • Photo: Samantha Faircloth

      Samantha Faircloth answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      Hello beep396, I love the bear constellation – the fact that it almost looks like a bear is really nice : -) It can also be used to find other constellations in the sky.

    • Photo: Sam Frampton

      Sam Frampton answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      I like the big dipper! I don’t actually know that many constellations though 🙁 I don’t study them for my work

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