Already know the Big Dipper? There’s extra to this workforce of stars

Some of my earliest stargazing reminiscences contain the similar seven stars. Whether you name it the Plough or the Big Dipper – and even the saucepan, the panhandle or the wagon – the celebrities that shape this asterism are ones I feel many of us learn how to recognise from an early age. But simply because the general public can recognise the Plough, and, through extension, Ursa Major, the constellation by which it lies, doesn’t imply now we have explored the whole thing on this patch of the sky. And May is as excellent a time…