If you look right where tea would pour out of the spout, you are looking toward the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The sky in this direction is filled with stars. Scan it with binoculars, and you will see cluster after cluster of stars, rising like little clouds of steam above the teapot. The sun is in Sagittarius at its southernmost point, the winter solstice. The size of each star indicates its relative magnitude .
Constellation names are light blue .
Messier object numbers are pink . Globular clusters are gold starbursts . Open clusters are dotted white circles. Planetary nebula are green diamonds . Bright nebula are magenta squares .