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The Ships of Sheliak

The Ships of Sheliak

: By Jim Hendrickson
Hidden in the rich starfields near the Ring Nebula is an asterism that resembles a pair of ships from Star Wars.
The “Little Big Dipper”

The “Little Big Dipper”

: By Jim Hendrickson
An asterism in Cepheus that is easy to find in small telescopes or binoculars is comprised of 10 stars between magnitude 6.0 and 9.5 and very closely approximates the shape of the northern sky’s most famous asterism-the Big Dipper