Wonders of the Night Sky Use Stellarium to complete the following tasks. Set the FoV (Field of View) on the bottom of the screen to 30 degrees. Choose the date to be June 20, roughly at midnight. 1. Look towards North or NW and try to find the ‘Big Dipper’ asterism. How many stars in the Big Dipper are visible? 2. Draw a diagram of the Big Dipper asterism the way it looks to you in the sky (on Stellarium). You may do your drawing on a separate piece of paper. It has to match what you see on Stellarium). 3. Write the name of each star of the Big Dipper asterism near each dot on your diagram. 4. What constellation is the Big Dipper in? 5. The two end stars in the bowl of the dipper (the two stars furthest from the handle) point towards a fairly bright star in the direction due North. Go roughly 5 times that distance. What is the name of the star? 6. Which asterism does this star belong to? 7. How many stars in this asterism are visible? 8. What constellation does this asterism belong to?