Ursa Major
The Big or small dipper and dont forget the bear
A constellation is a patch of sky. Asking how far away it is is meaningless. You could ask how far away individual stars are, but there are a lot of stars in Cygnus at many vastly different distances. Deneb, the brightest star in Cygnus, is a bit of a quandary; it's variable, making its distance difficult to measure. The generally accepted value is about 2600 light years, but the Hipparchos satellite measurement is about half that, at around 1500 light years.
South, every direction from the North Pole is south.
North north East
north
That isn't possible because the stars in any one constellation are all at different distances from us, and each star is moving in its own direction. There's no connection among the stars in a constellation.
Any constellation is a group of stars that appear to form some kind of pattern, but have no connection with each other. They all happen to be in roughly the same direction from us, but they're all at different distances. So there's no such thing as a constellation's distance from us.
Any constellation is a group of stars that appear to form some kind of pattern, but have no connection with each other. They all happen to be in roughly the same direction from us, but they're all at different distances. So there's no such thing as a constellation's distance from us.
Any constellation is a group of stars that appear to form some kind of pattern,but have no connection with each other. They all happen to be in roughly thesame direction from us, but they're all at different distances. So there's nosuch thing as a constellation's distance from us.
Any constellation is a group of stars that appear to form some kind of pattern, but have no connection with each other. They all happen to be in roughly the same direction from us, but they're all at different distances. So there's no such thing as a constellation's distance from us.
Any constellation is a group of stars that appear to form some kind of pattern, but have no connection with each other. They all happen to be in roughly the same direction from us, but they're all at different distances. So there's no such thing as a constellation's distance from us.
Any constellation is a group of stars that appear to form some kind of pattern, but have no connection with each other. They all happen to be in roughly the same direction from us, but they're all at different distances. So there's no such thing as a constellation's distance from us.