Sentences with asterism
as·ter·ism
A a - The Big Dipper, Summer Triangle, and Orion's Belt are asterisms.
- They're located about 15� west-northwest of the bright red star Aldebaran, which in turn is at the end of one of the arms of a V-shaped asterism, the Hyades open cluster, which points southwest.
- If the favourable asterism is in its ascendancy and if it alone exerts an influence over the new-born, then its good influence will increase.
- Cygnus - the Swan - is a cluster of stars, or asterism, easily visible in the summer skies.
- Orion and the Great Bear are two of the most prominent asterisms visible from the northern hemisphere.
- The asterism of which Ak is the brightest is Ursa Major, the Great Bear to some, Big Dipper to others.