Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site milford.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!ittatc!milford!bill From: bill@milford.UUCP (bill) Newsgroups: net.astro,net.auto Subject: Subaru stars Message-ID: <103@milford.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 08:19:12 EDT Article-I.D.: milford.103 Posted: Thu Aug 8 08:19:12 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 00:31:54 EDT Organization: Telecomp,Inc. , Milford Ct. Lines: 29 Xref: linus net.astro:785 net.auto:6522 What could possibly be posted both to astro and auto? I've become curious about the logo for the Subaru line of automobiles, they have six stars in an oval: O 0 O O O O (The star marked '0' is slightly larger (brighter?) than the others.) I first guessed it represented a subset of the stars of Sagitarius, but the bow doesn't look right and the brighter star would be out of place. Next guess was Lyra but the rhomboid of the right most four stars would be twisted out of shape, besides the '0' star is not _that_ much larger than the others. Can any veteran star-gazers identify what the Subaru logo represents? Perhaps it is a Japanese constellation which the West divided into several -- 'Subaru, the sign of the four-wheel-drive-chariot'?