How to find the Summer Triangle: three stars, no gear, one June evening
If you step outside tonight around 22:00 local time and face east, you’ll see a bright blue-white star roughly a third of the way up from the horizon. That’s Vega — the fifth-brightest star in the entire sky, magnitude +0.03, and your entry point to the largest asterism of the summer. Vega belongs to a pattern called the Summer Triangle: three stars in three separate constellations that together frame one of the richest stretches of sky visible from northern latitudes. You don’t need a telescope. You don’t need an app, though one helps. All you need is a clear evening and a rough sense of east. ...