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Summer Triangle

Vega, Deneb and Altair: the asterism that owns the northern summer sky, its exact geometry, what it contains, and the season it marks.

The Summer Triangle: What Its Three Sides Actually Measure

Three stars everyone points at in summer, and whose dimensions nobody ever gives. We measured them in the catalogue the app runs on: 23.85 degrees, 34.20 and 38.01. The Triangle is nowhere near equilateral, it covers one hundredth of the whole sky, and it holds two entire constellations.

La Voie lactée d'été dressée au zénith derrière une ligne de sapins en silhouette, dans un ciel bleu nuit saturé d'étoiles.