Which stars / What kind of constellation can be seen on a clear december night in New York.?

Read up topWhich stars / What kind of constellation can be seen on a clear december night in New York.?
The Big Dipper (which is part of Ursa Major - the Bear) and Orion. If you follow the edge of the big dipper ( the 2 stars of the big dipper that are farthest away from the 3 stars of its handle ) from the top of this pan in the sky in a straight line it points to the Dog Star or Sirius (the North Star) around which all the other stars seem to or appear to orbit or rotate around (It's really the earth that is rotating). I don't know if you could see this star in NYC though. Upstate NY, yes... In other words if you placed a camera and aimed it at this star and took a time lapse photogragh, you would see the Dog Star in the center of the photo with all the stars in the sky appearing like curved lines of light going around this central star...





There are other constellations, named after characters of the zodiac and mythology which you can look up on a map of the night sky, but Orion and the Big Dipper are the most easily recognized. You can also look for Venus and Jupiter, planets that look like stars and are very bright, and Mars which appears reddish, especially if you don't look at it directly. You can also look for the The Pleaides, a fuzzy group of stars sometimes seen near Orion.





Sometimes, you'll see a star that appears to be moving across the sky unlike the rest of the stars in the sky. This is a man-made satellite...Which stars / What kind of constellation can be seen on a clear december night in New York.?
In New York City you will be severely limited by light pollution in what you can see. Expect to see perhaps a few dozen of the brightest stars, arranged in some of the brighter constellations, notably Orion to the south and the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) to the north.
get a pair of good binoculars with a mag. of at least 10. When I look at the sky without binoculars, I can only see like 2 stars, the moon, and venus. With the binoculars, I can literally see like tons more. Its like they appear out of no where.





Im getting a telescope though the binoculars dont do that much good when it comes to viewing clusters and what not.
You can see the big dipper the little dipper,lepus,eridanus,cetus,pegasus,pisc鈥?major,cassiopeia,auriga and taurus.





I didnt name all of them but those are the main ones between 12:00pm and 8:00 PM
If you're refering to New York City, probably very few, but if you go out into the country, the night sky should be spectacular. Orion and Leo are two of my personal favorites.