Below find various essays on stars and constellations, written with the love of the night sky, which looks down upon us as it did for our ancestors thousands of years before.

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• The Admirable Bull (Deep image of Taurus with lengthy caption)

• The Bunny and the Bird (Lepus and Columba)

• Chasing the Fox (Equuleus, Sagitta, Delphinus, and Vulpecula)

• Going to the Dogs (Canis Major and Canis Minor)

• Heroic Stars (Hercules)

• Hunting Orion (Orion and its features)

• The Navigator (Quadrans, Sextans, and Octans)

• Riding the Unicorn (Monoceros)

• The Royal Sky (Corona Borealis and Corona Australis)

• Spring's Diamond (Around and through the Great Diamond of Cor Caroli, Arcturus, Spica, and Denebola)

• NEW! Tea With the Scorpion (Scorpius and Sagittarius)

• Three White Stars (Stars of the Summer Triangle)

• Triangle Trio (Trianglum, Trianglum Australe, and Triangulum Minus)

• Watering the Goat (Capricornus and Aquarius)