To introduce students to the beauty of the nighttime sky as observed from a rural setting by identifying certain prominent constellations and star groups. Students will be familiarized with these star patterns during the orientation and planetarium program. Andromeda the chained princess, including the Andromeda galaxy. A portion of the blackboard can be divided into a girls' and a boys' section. Several students of each gender should be invited to come forward and sketch, in their respective areas, what they believe to be a true representation of a star in the real sky.
Stars are really huge, hot, spheres of hydrogen and helium gas which are producing their own energy.
They are converting hydrogen into helium deep within their interiors. Because of their great distances, stars appear small and faint to the eye. The exception to this rule is, of course, the sun which is only big and bright because of its close proximity to the earth. If we lived on a planet in orbit around the closest star to our sun, Alpha Centauri, our daystar would be visible from the countryside as an easily observed luminary near the constellation of Cassiopeia. Most constellations can only be seen on clear nights away from the bright lights of a city, and many of these require a great deal of imagination to be seen correctly.