# What's your favorite constellation? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 10, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-constellation/724809 "2015-07-10T22:20:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-constellation/724809/41 "2015-07-12T15:19:41Z")
Orion’s the only constellation I can regularly identify when I see it, so Orion. I’ve tried to learn some of the other constellations, but when I look at the sky, all I can see otherwise is a bunch of stars in no good pattern. But Orion, I can recognize. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-constellation/724809/42 "2015-07-12T21:18:08Z")
In one of his fantasy/horror novels, Fritz Leiber refers to the Black Constellations, the shapes made up of the darkness between the stars. Kind of a “Satanic Bible” inversion. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-constellation/724809/43 "2015-07-12T21:31:42Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > You’re right, of course. I always knew it as The Seven Sisters and separate from Taurus. No, no, the Seven Sisters are on a Subaru. Not a Ford. 😉 Orion and Sagittarius. Both great to view with binoculars, but it’s hard not to appreciate Orion as the most beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-constellation/724809/44 "2015-07-12T21:33:43Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > In one of his fantasy/horror novels, Fritz Leiber refers to the Black Constellations, the shapes made up of the darkness between the stars. Kind of a “Satanic Bible” inversion. Fascinating! You might enjoy some thoughts that were shared at [Absence/Emptiness as a theme in art](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=355180) from 01-21-2006, 10:17 AM through 02-03-2006, 08:37 AM Something like Sounds of Silence, perhaps… ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-constellation/724809/45 "2015-07-12T22:31:35Z")
**Zeldar** : lovely stuff! Absence can have a presence of its own. If you put a lovely lace doily on a surface, spray-paint through it, and take it up, the paint patter is very nearly as beautiful, itself, as the lace doily was. (And, of course, the absence of a bathing suit has a very definite effect…) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-constellation/724809/46 "2015-07-12T22:38:06Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > **Zeldar** : lovely stuff! Absence can have a presence of its own. If you put a lovely lace doily on a surface, spray-paint through it, and take it up, the paint patter is very nearly as beautiful, itself, as the lace doily was. > > (And, of course, the absence of a bathing suit has a very definite effect…) 😃 While we’re at it, here’s a sort of _koan_ I used to enjoy using at appropriate times: > [@](#): > > It is far better to sit idle than to do nothing at all ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-constellation/724809/47 "2015-07-12T23:17:38Z")
My favorite Constellation is this: [http://www.iloveplanes.com/super-connie](http://www.iloveplanes.com/super-connie) As for stellar matters, Orion is one that I have identified in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, so that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/race_to_the_bottom)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-constellation/724809/48 "2015-07-13T02:02:01Z")
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