Like most of us I can recognize The Plow/Big Dipper/Ursa Whotsit!
Also Orions belt at a push, and usually feel quite smug when I can point them out.
I wouldn't mind learning a few more, and would like to join the rest of the BCG on an intergalactic slightly pretentious bluffing journey through the night sky.
All Photo's diagrams & theories welcome.
I looked at the sky once.
I love looking at the stars on a clear night.
Especially when stoned. 
It's a lovely thing to do.
Especially outside a big city like London.
I always loved going to Somerset & seeing the stars in a bit more glory.
Watching Born: Survivor the other days and Bear explained how to find the North Star. Overcomplicated. Look for the The Plow, find the bottom, count four across the horizon, multiply it by for and count four up and that star is the North'un. 
It's nice to see the planets as well.
They look like stars but they don't glitter.
My Dad has a big telescope thing and you can look at Saturn (I think) and see the rings. It's awesome.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjpowell/Astro/Naked-Eye-Planets/Naked-Eye-Planets.htm
Quote: Leevil @ September 4 2010, 12:30 AM BSTMy Dad has a big telescope thing and you can look at the house opposite and see boobs. It's awesome.
I might get one.
It would be nice.
I tried it with Bonoculars but it was a bit too shakey.
Looked like that if I remember correctly.
Quite detailed.
Wow, that's good.
I remember being on holiday in Cornwall and being wowed at all the stars I could see in the sky. Saw a shooting star too!
I had a star chart once, guides, star calendar, the lot. My fascination lasted about two nights after I realised I didn't understand any of it, and learning the very annoying names of constellations - how on earth they came up with their comparison names I shall never know! The Archer for example, eh? Were there a few more stars in that one back in 500bc or whenever it was named then? Baffling!
The sky at night's still great though, obviously, love that orange/coffee coloured moon. Anyone here give me the true explanation of what causes that, please. I've heard the atmospheric/visual pollution one, and I'm not convinced at all. I've sat and watched the thing turn from deep orange to its usual silver in less an hour, so how can it be pollution? Would love to know the real answer.
The problem I find the with stargazing, is that I go out into the garden with my Collins Gem guide, I look up at the sky, see something interesting, then look down at my guide, and am unable to read what it says because it is too dark. So I get out my torch, read what the guide says, look back up at the sky, and can't see a thing because I am night-blinded.
How come when you look at a star it doesn't seem as bright when you look at it out of the corner of your eye? Cosmological phenomena or something to do with my iris?