window.document.getElementById(’post-55′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Since the dawn of time, when man first looked up in the heavens, he painted the sky with pictures. The points of light from stars made patterns which looked like certain objects. Today these constellations are still in use, though some have been left out, and are necessary to navigate the heavens with a telescope.
Astronomy is an interesting topic. Even though today we have telescopes to look at objects in the sky with greater magnitude than with the naked eye, we still need a way of navigating the heavens. Even though astronomy has been a topic that people have delved into for thousands of years, the astronomy with optical telescopes is pretty much a recent invention, compared with our history.
When we look up at the heavens, we see these points of light, and can easily create pictures out of them. For example French astronomer de Lalande saw a picture of his cat called Felis, and as such made a constellation called Felis. However, most of these constellations have not made the official status.
Currently the whole sky has been mapped into pictures. These picture representations have helped map the whole sky into 88 different constellations. In fact the […]

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