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Space/Science » in reply to I'd hate to say goodbye to the Hunter though.

If you lived tens of thousands of years ago...

... a flit of the eyelash in cosmic terms, Orion would have been virtually
unrecognizable to current humanity. In fact if you look at Orion now
when it is near the horizon as I recall doing last year, the Hunter looks
more like Butterfly when laying on its side, at least to me.

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series had a film about how constellations will look
over the next one million years, including Orion, which will have many
stars winking in and out over the ages, to say nothing of moving about.

And here is a cute little GIF of the Big Dipper from 90,000 BCE to 100,000 CE:

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr130/im/proper_motion_big_dipper.gif

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