✨ Which star pattern is this?

🦉 Peabody draws a star pattern, dot by dot, the way the stars really sit. Which one is it? Look for the shape first: a ladle, a W, three stars in a row.

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The answers, and why

Which star pattern is this? (Pattern 1) The Big Dipper. The Big Dipper: Seven stars in a ladle. The two at the end of the bowl point to the North Star.
Which star pattern is this? (Pattern 2) Orion. Orion: Three stars in a short straight row (the belt), with a red star above and a blue-white one below.
Which star pattern is this? (Pattern 3) Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia: Five stars in a W (or an M, depending on the time of night).
Which star pattern is this? (Pattern 4) The Summer Triangle. The Summer Triangle: Three bright stars from three different constellations, in a big triangle. Vega is the brightest.
Which star pattern is this? (Pattern 5) Leo. Leo: A backwards question mark (the sickle) ending in the bright star Regulus, and a triangle behind it.
Which star pattern is this? (Pattern 6) The Pleiades. The Pleiades: A tiny, misty cluster like a very small dipper. Most eyes count six or seven stars.
Which star pattern is this? (Pattern 7) The Northern Cross. The Northern Cross: A big cross with bright Deneb at the top, inside the Summer Triangle. Albireo, at the foot, is a gold and blue double star in a small telescope.
Which star pattern is this? (Pattern 8) Scorpius. Scorpius: A long curving line of stars like a fishhook, low in the south, with a bright red star, Antares, near its top.
Which star pattern is this? (Pattern 9) The Teapot. The Teapot: Eight stars in the shape of a teapot, low in the south, with its spout on the right (west), its lid on top and its handle on the left.
Which star pattern is this? (Pattern 10) The Northern Crown. The Northern Crown: A small half-circle of seven stars, like a crown or a bowl, with one brighter star, Alphecca. It sits about a third of the way from Arcturus to Vega.

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