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1. What area of the night sky is referred to as the northern sky?
2. Home to many galaxies of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, which constellation representing an Egyptian queen's hair is best viewed in spring?
3. Which large but faint constellation, containing a pair of bright globular clusters, M13 and M92, is named for a mythical hero?
4. The constellation Lyra may be small but it contains one of the brightest stars in the sky. What is the name of this magnitude 0 star?
5. The north star, Polaris, is the second brightest star in the night sky.
6. The constellation Auriga, the charioteer, contains many splendid open clusters for binoculars and small telescopes. Three of these were catalogued by French comet hunter Charles Messier, M36 and M37 among them. What is the third "M" cluster in Auriga?
7. Orion contains many bright stars like Rigel and the famous Orion Nebula but most of these lie south of the celestial equator. What red giant does lie in the northern sky?
8. Gemini, the twins from Greek myth, contains which two bright stars?
9. Sagittarius, the archer, is located in the southern sky but which constellation, representing an arrow, is located in the northern sky?
10. A large square shaped asterism is formed by one star of the constellation Andromeda and 3 stars of which other constellation, named for the winged horse of Greek myth?
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