The night sky is beautiful in your neighborhood. Your children will love to look at the stars and learn to recognize them. But where do I begin?
It is a good idea to find a star chart, star wheel, or table and cross it before proceeding outside. As a beginner, it is better not to use a telescope. Although the telescope shows an accurate view, the detail and number of visible stars can make it more difficult and confusing to identify stars and larger stars.
A star map or star wheel can often be found in natural history journals or astronomy publications. Most likely, you will be able to find a local bookstore. The star wheels are the best because they can be adapted to time and season. The parts of the sky which will not then be seen will be blocked in the wheel of the stars.
Star charts and wheels simplify your view of the sky because they don’t show every star. A star chart or star wheel will show the major stars and constellations for you to identify.
Some of the maps, star charts or star wheels are illustrated so they can be read outside. Otherwise, you will need a dark lamp or put red cellophane over the glass. This will make it easier for your vision to adjust between light and dark.
Star maps and star wheels, groups of stars called “constellations”, and matching their shapes to those on the map or wheel, will help to identify the locations of individual stars. This is easily illustrated by the fact that the extreme point of Fear is the North Pole.
Your family will be surprised that it is not easy to pick up the constellations from the figures, which often seem to bear no resemblance to the names they have been given.
On a star chart, or chart, or star wheel, some major stars will be shown. These stars are usually the brightest and easiest to identify. It’s a great place to start as a child, usually representing the first happiness of finding a star in oneself.
You and your children may notice that they can identify some stars by their slight color variations. Some stars may be red, some blue; This is indicative of the star’s temperature. Although you might guess the opposite, the cooler stars are reddish-orange and the hottest are blue-white. However, this difference in temperature is only relative – the stars are all still very hot and at least 2000 degrees Fahrenheit!
When your family is used to identifying the major constellations, you may want to pick up the night sky more clearly through a telescope or binoculars. Heaven is an exciting discovery for children and adults. You can start doing this maybe the next night in your backyard family.
