High overhead around the 8 p.m. local standard time is a bright configuration of stars that people unfamiliar with the sky often mistake for the Big Dipper. Big it is, but — at least in an official sense — a dipper it is not. This large figure is not usually described as a dipper in most stargazing guides; The Autumn Dipper, in fact, looks like a much larger and brighter version of the Little Dipper.