Since the very recent announcement by NASA of 1200+ exoplanets beyond our solar system, I have been using the software program Stellarium (Windows, Linux, Mac) which displays a moving (Live) graphic of the stars and planets of the night sky.
Together with that is the learning of these different civilizations from the other stars that have had some type of influence on Earth history over the past several 100,000 years.
Now I can actually spot and name some of the closest or brightest stars in the night sky, where before they were just stars ... now I know some of their names....Oooohhh.
Generally in the West are...
Sirius ... the brightest star closest to us at 8.6 light years
Above and a bit to the south of Sirius is Regulus, which is 77.49 light years away. The name of the star/sun is like something out of Star Trek:TNG.
To the north of Sirius and horizontal to it is Rigel.
Above Sirius is Procyon (11.4 ly), to the north/right is a huge star/sun called Pollux (33.71 ly).
Red dwarf star Betelgeuse is 427.47 light years and to the north/right of it is Aldeberan at 65.11 light years.
North/right of it is slightly fainter, but very important to Earth history...the group of 7 stars/suns called the Pleiades - including individual stars with names like Alcyone, Merope, Maia, and Taygeta.
Above and further north of the Pleiades is Capella at 42.20 light years. No one really talks about Capella for some reason.
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