1. Name constellations that you know:
Among easily recognisable constellations from East Africa are:
a. Orion (hunter but recognisable as a large horizontal rectangle or a trapezium with three stars close together in a line in the middle of the rectangle seen from east, west, overhead)
b. Scorpio (unmistakable as a scorpion, seen east, west, overhead)
c. Leo (question mark shape makes head of the lion, seen east, west, overhead)
Some star groups that are parts of contstellations are called ASTERISMS
The whole sky is divided into 88 constellations that are officially recognised by the International Astronomical Union.
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