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Constellation Report
The purpose of this report is to learn about a small portion of the night sky (so you can brag about your superior astro-knowledge to all your friends and relatives!) and to create a page for the “constellation book” that will head with me to GCC’s field station in Baja California. This will enable the Baja students to better understand and appreciate from one the prominent winter constellations.

For this project, you need to find a map…white background with black stars/nebulae/galaxies/etc… and then underneath that, describe interesting things about that constellation.

You must include:

1. Two mythological stories (one Greco-Roman, one other from a culture of your choice) about the stars contained in the IAU constellation region.

2. The names and significant (relating to either the mythological stories and the astronomy) of the prominent stars of the constellation.

3. Descriptions of the deep sky objects found within the boundaries of the IAU constellation.

The size of your report should be 11" by 17" in length...I'll be printing these out and taking them with me to Baja.