How do you determine a whether or not this is a star constellation?

i'm writing an article, i'm a journalist. i need help immediately, please help.How do you determine a whether or not this is a star constellation?Whether "what" is a star constellation.

But there is no such thing as a 'star constellation'.

A star is a star.

A constellation is the shape humans make in the random distribution of stars in the night sky.



There are 88 official named constellations in our night sky, every star visible with the naked eye (and even with powerful telescopes) has been assigned an identifier and constellation.

This was done back in 1920 or so accepted by the scientific community.How do you determine a whether or not this is a star constellation?Considering that there are billions of stars scattered more or less at random in the sky, any pattern of dots can be made to match some group of stars in some way.



So if you have a pattern of dots, you can be confident that they would match some pattern of stars somewhere in the sky, and therefore comprise a constellation.



If you want to know what stars in the sky match your dots, then unless they happen to match the prominent stars in the sky, you would need to run some kind of matching program to find the answer.