What is the name of the Star constellation that looks like a saucepan?

Question

Please do you know?

Answer 1

Hi Rayvon

The constellation you're looking for is Orion, The Hunter.  The three stars that form the bottom of the saucepan is known as the Belt Of Orion.

Cheers

Peps

Answer 2

the big dipper

Answer 3

Ursa Major

Answer 4

Pleiades

Answer 5

That's what it looks like too, a saucepan. It should be called The Saucepan.

Answer 6

The Great Bear or The Plough

Answer 7

Actually, there are two "saucepans" in the sky: Ursa Major (the bigger one) and Ursa Minor. Ursa Minor is a bit smaller and is higher up in the sky towards the zenith.

Answer 8

After you've observed your saucepan you should investigate the Teapot in Sagittarius (it REALLY looks like a teapot!) and then take a look at the Coathanger -- it's nearly a perfect coathanger.

Answer 9

The Plough.

Answer 10

There are at least 5 groups of stars that look like saucepans to the naked eye (a lot more in telescopes).

None of them are constellations.  They are "asterisms" (groups of stars) that are sometimes given a name.

For example, the Big Dipper (also known as the Plough in UK -- the English spelling of plow) is a group of 7 stars that form a figure that can be likened to a saucepan.  It is quite large in the sky.  

It is the rear portion of the constellation called Ursa Major (Great Bear), with the handle forming a tail.

Bears do not have long tails, so the Chinese had the bear followed by three hunters, the middle one holding the pot to cook the bear.

The small bear (Ursa Minor) has a somewhat similar shape.  It is more like a distorted saucepan.  However, it is famous because the star at the end of the tail is Polaris, the star that sits almost exactly at the North Pole of the celestial sphere.

The open cluster "Pleiades" (sometimes called the Seven Sisters) is very small compared to the saucepans of the bears.  However, it does have the shape of a saucepan (with a shorter handle).  It is a cluster (similar stars, born together from the same cloud) that sits in the constellation Taurus (the Bull).

There are also saucepan-shaped asterisms in Orion and in Sagittarius.

Answer 11

the saucepan constellation

Answer 12

"The Skillet Nebula." LOL

Honestly I don't know but if it looks like a frying pan then some dits will name it for what it resembles. In this case a SKILLET and you just named it.

10 points to Hufflepuff.  

Answer 13

The Big Dipper.  

Answer 14

either ursa major or ursa minor....

Answer 15

It is the asterism of Ursa Major, also called the Big Dipper.