Neat asterisms.

[cotterless45]

Some fun for all, hurrah !

http://www.deep-sky.co.uk/asterisms.htm

Nick.

[YKSE]

Thanks for sharing Nick, some goodies for summer stargazing.

[Owmuchonomy]

I think these are best viewed after the grey cells receive some lubrication. Better get the Black Sheep stocked up.

[Christhorpe]

This looks like a great little list to work on over the coming months. Cheers. Mines a badger champion !

[jetstream]

Thanks Nick!I just visited a favorite the other night-ET was near perfect in my 17mm,great so see him again!

[RT65CB-SWL]

An interesting site you found Nick. Thank you for sharing it.

[PorkyB]

Thanks for this.  There are some real gems in this list, I will enjoy looking for the ones that are new to me.

My favourite is Kemble's Cascade.  I have tried to photograph it times, but it never looks as good as it does through the eyepiece.  When I bought my little refractor it was the first thing I looked at.  Brilliant through a short scope and a widefield eyepiece.

[damnut]

Just noticed this, thanks for posting & sharing.

[bingevader]

Neat! Thanks Nick. 

[Chris Hopson]

Loving this and bookmarked.

Many thanks

[Paul73]

Asterisms are just silly and have no place in serious astronomy.

Happily, I find that I am not a serious astronomer!

With a big old moon and a new 12mm eyepiece to play with, I remembered this thread from about 6 weeks ago.

Glad I did. The Owl in Cassiopeia is one of the loveliest things in the sky. It does actually look like a barn owl chick complete with wings and a tail feathers. Really easy to find and fitted into my 12mm 72° FOV nicely. I am a little confused about the naming - Calling it ET might have been a popular idea in the 80's. But there is no getting away with the fact that it is an owl.

Looking forward to searching out a few more although I suspect that some of them are a little tenuous.

Paul

[cotterless45]

These are really great, especially for kids of all ages. I still think that the Coathanger between Albireo and Altair with x7 bins is superb.As is Kemble's Cascade, tumbling down one Cassiopeia's length to the left, hurrah !

Nick.

[Skylook123]

Much appreciated, Nick.  Perhaps we should all be looking for unnamed but striking collections, if any such still exist.

After hearing of lifetime stipends awarded to Herschel for his original naming of Uranus after King George III, Georgium Sidus, and to Halley for the naming of Cor Caroli (conflicting references claim the Heart of Charles is either named for Charles I beheading, or Charles II returning the monarchy following the death of Cromwell), I have begun a search for an appropriate Bill Gates Cluster.

[LukeSkywatcher]

Some real beauties in there. 

[avtaram]

Thanks Nick for the link it's a very useful website.

A few months ago I was scanning the sky around Polaris with my wide angle bins (fov11*) when I noticed what looked like a big question mark ( ? ) , turns out it's the seven sisters of the Pole.

I think I commented on it in one of my posts on Binoculars.

Avtar

[JamesF]

I love the Coathanger, perhaps because its location is clear from here with the naked eye, so it's always easy to find.

The "Flying Minnow" however, I have always thought of as a bent tuning fork

James

[Bart]

thanks Nick, I like asterisms  I also like the word asterism.....