Jimmy Westlake / Courtesy The eyes of the Draco the Dragon,
Eltanin and Rastaban, always are watching. These two prominent
stars are circumpolar from Northwest Colorado, meaning they
never set and always are above our horizon. Monday, September 3,
2012 Jimmy Westlake's Celestial News column appears Tuesdays in
the Steamboat Today. Find more columns by Westlake here. Peering
at us from out of the darkness on late-summer evenings are the
twinkling eyes of Draco the Dragon. This millennia-old
constellation represents Ladon, the dragon that guarded the
golden apples of the Hesperides in Greek mythology. The two
stars marking Draco’s eyes are striking because they are nearly
the same brightness and appear so close together in the sky,
making them easy to spot. Draco is one of several constellations
in the sky that depict a creature killed by Hercules, the great
strong man from mythology. Hercules was forced to pay penance
for the murder of his wife and children by completing 12 nearly
impossible tasks. These were