This is a post i began composing March 3, 2016.
I already am fantasizing about the OSAIP (Our Sky Astrology Interactive Planetarium)
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This shot is from when I first moved the setup from my bedroom to the dining room. Yesterday I moved it into the living room and graduated from a hand held sun to one clamped to a bookshelf. I also added a little Polaris above the North South duct tape.
I am really excited about showing visitors how Vega (the bright star in Orpheus' Lyre) was named after a falling vulture because it is on the midheaven when we are turning down in our daily revolution....while Capella, the little she goat in Auriga, is on the MC (Latin abbreviation for midheaven) when we are climbing up from facing the underside of the galaxy.
All the constellations with myths about the under world are riddles referring to the galactic down under! Plato was not fooling when he said the myths are actually referring to declinations.
One of these shows the sun shining from the Sagittarius side of Earth. The best I can tell from Stellarium and Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stars, the lamp was shining from above (Earth under Sun) Oct 7. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stars lists the galactic north pole as 12h51m. i have tried to get confirmation from some online astrnomers but somehow the communication is weak. If someone can confirm or correct this Oct 7 date of Earth being under Sun I would sure appreciate it. i don't want to spread bad information.
It seems like this stuff should be common knowledge, but it has taken me a lot of poking around to figure it out. In my adventures I did notice a few other curious people asking the same questions on forums, so it should not be long before the information spreads.
please excuse if this post is even more messy than usual. I am learning to blog on my little android phone.
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Well, 2 months have passed and it is time to move this forgotten piece from the drafts into the big sea of
Our Sky posts. the foto w/the little yellow blob hanging from a doorway is my facsimile of Polaris. The one w/the red X on the globe shows where i marked Raleigh, NC and made a dotted line around the globe for the reference of local latitude.
The last one shows the X for Raleigh turning down from just above the galactic plane to just under.
My health is improving every day. I am even going to yoga once or twice a week with Mr. Lyrica. Maybe soon i can invite the public to this humble little planetarium to hang stars and explore exciting concepts in the ancient science of naked eye sky watching.
