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Where is the Big Dipper in Shenyang?

The position of the Big Dipper in Shenyang all the year round. The starry sky in spring: The most striking thing in the starry sky in spring is the Big Dipper hanging high in the northern sky. Starting from the Big Dipper, you can find the main bright star in spring: two stars are connected to the mouth of the bucket and extend to five times the distance between the two stars, and you will find the brighter Polaris (Alpha Ursa minor); Looking southwest along the connecting line of the other two stars in Doukou, you can find the bright Xuanyuan XIV (Leo α star). You can draw a big arc along the curve of several stars on the barrel handle. If you extend this arc, you can find the bright orange star arcturus (the alpha star of Capricorn). If we continue our southern tour, we can find another bright star, arcturus (Alpha Virgo). If you continue to travel southwest, you can find a quadrilateral composed of four small stars. This is corvus corax. This big arc, which starts from the handle of a bucket and ends in corvus corax, is the famous "Big Spring Curve". The triangle consisting of arcturus, Cepheus and Leo β is called the "Spring Triangle". An equilateral quadrilateral composed of the Spring Triangle and Alpha Canis is called "the important symbol of the big diamond in spring and the starry sky in summer", which is a light belt extending from Dongping line in the north to the horizon in the south, and is a "summer triangle" composed of three bright stars on both sides of the Milky Way: Vega (Alpha Lyra), Altair (Alpha Eagle) and Tianjin IV (Alpha Cygnus). The Milky Way in summer is extremely magnificent, but it can only be seen in the wild without light interference. The milky way with bright white stripes spread the whole sky. Looking at the Milky Way, it is inevitable to think of many fairy tales that are still circulating in China, such as the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge on Tanabata every year. In autumn, the Big Dipper has come to Shenyang at a low altitude. "The flying horse is in the sky, and the Milky Way hangs obliquely", which is a symbol of the starry sky in autumn. Patrol the autumn starry sky, you can start from the "autumn quadrangle" (also known as "flying horse-fairy box") in the direction of the head. This quadrilateral is like a square. When it is overhead, its four sides just represent one direction. The quadrangle in autumn is made up of three bright stars in Pegasus and one bright star in Andromeda, which is very eye-catching. It's freezing in winter, so it's not a pleasant thing to come out and watch the stars at night. However, in all seasons, the starry sky in winter is the most magnificent. Winter is the brightest season of stars all year round, and many constellations are very easy to identify. Of course, the most striking thing is Orion hanging high in the southern sky: the Samsung sandwiched between the red bright star Betelgeuse (Orion α) and the white bright star Betelgeuse (Orion β) is quite attractive. Looking south and east along Samsung, you can find Sirius (Alpha Canis), the brightest star in the whole day. Just to the east of Betelgeuse, there is another bright star, Nanhesan (Alpha Canis). Betelgeuse, Sirius and the South River form the famous "Winter Triangle", and the faint Milky Way passes through it, which is the darkest place in the whole day.