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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 12:10:09 AM

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hi gorgeous!

I miss deserts for that reason.... the lack of light pollution..*sigh*

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 6:09:36 AM

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I often gaze at Sirius with wonder and delight. It is one ofmany sailors' favorite celestial bodies. I named one of my boats Sirius.

Nothing like the night sky viewed from an unlit environment, be it at sea, or in a pasture. I sometimes imagine how folks in ancient cultures spent much time gazing at the night sky and drawing conclusions about celestial events that repeatedly occur over long periods of time. Of course, they didn't have cable...

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 6:19:05 AM

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Good morning cjan

I do the same, think about ancient peoples and what life must have been like for them. True, they didn't have cable - and they didn't have air pollution or light pollution either.

But neither did they have telescopes or any of the other wizardry we have...

Still though, knowing what the clear night sky looks like from the middle of a large wilderness area (fantastic) there were obviously aspects of their lives which have to be enviable.

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I often gaze at Sirius with wonder and delight. It is one ofmany sailors' favorite celestial bodies. I named one of my boats Sirius.

Nothing like the night sky viewed from an unlit environment, be it at sea, or in a pasture. I sometimes imagine how folks in ancient cultures spent much time gazing at the night sky and drawing conclusions about celestial events that repeatedly occur over long periods of time. Of course, they didn't have cable...

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 6:22:51 AM

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I listen to Sirius most everyday.

I'm particularly fond of "The NFL Network" and "Bubba the Love Sponge" on Howard 101

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 6:28:18 AM

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The sky at night right now is so gorgeous, I too have finally been able to do some star mapping.

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 6:45:46 AM

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That was very cool...thanks for the link

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 7:51:07 AM

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I live out in the country with no lights around us. The night sky in magnificient. I look at all the stars and enjoy trying to find the constellations. Sirius is very bright. Venus also is bright now. I guess I need to break down and buy a telescope to look closer...might be kind of fun.

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 9:07:20 AM

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Sanity you might enjoy this website:

http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sowlist.html

I'd love to have time to be more familiar with the constellations. I really enjoyed seeing Venus and Jupiter the first part of Dec when they were the most pronounced. I don't think I've been outside at night to look since then. Thanks for reminding us!

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 9:34:56 AM

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Good morning cjan

I do the same, think about ancient peoples and what life must have been like for them. True, they didn't have cable - and they didn't have air pollution or light pollution either.

But neither did they have telescopes or any of the other wizardry we have...

Still though, knowing what the clear night sky looks like from the middle of a large wilderness area (fantastic) there were obviously aspects of their lives which have to be enviable.

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I often gaze at Sirius with wonder and delight. It is one ofmany sailors' favorite celestial bodies. I named one of my boats Sirius.

Nothing like the night sky viewed from an unlit environment, be it at sea, or in a pasture. I sometimes imagine how folks in ancient cultures spent much time gazing at the night sky and drawing conclusions about celestial events that repeatedly occur over long periods of time. Of course, they didn't have cable...

One of the things that I wonder at is how, in ancient times before there were means to pass on knowledge in written form, celestial observers must have had to pass on observations from generation to generation verbally. That takes a lot of star gazing and patience.

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 10:49:42 AM

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when I went sailing in Mexico, the nights were magical.. the skies were so bright with stars! and there was phospheresence (sp?) in the water...

stars above, and stars below. absolutely sublime.

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 11:12:23 AM

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Didn't most ancient societies support a class of priests whose only duties were to study and learn and pass along knowledge of such things?

Shamans, witch doctors, etc.?

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One of the things that I wonder at is how, in ancient times before there were means to pass on knowledge in written form, celestial observers must have had to pass on observations from generation to generation verbally. That takes a lot of star gazing and patience.

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 12:02:33 PM

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Yes, from what I've read. Many ancient cultures from the Druids to the Aztecs and Incas. Imagine the power in such a society when someone could predict events like eclipses.

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 3:32:06 PM

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Joe is a bit high strung, and he likes to run off for hours at a time so he has a long leash when walked and he has a huge fenced kennel with trees and a whole outbuilding attached. He's young though, and just now beginning to settle down. I work with him every day, but still he's got seemingly endless energy.

Labs are great dogs but stay puppies in attitude for about four years. My sister's lab repeated puppy kindergarten for six months straight before he could move up to obedience class.

And they tend to be overweight since they are always hungry. This was the only dog I've ever known that if you dropped some dry macaroni on the floor while pouring it from the box, would eat it. My golden only ate pasta if cooked!

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RE: Sirius, The Star - 2/5/2009 9:06:26 PM

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Sirius, the Dog Star, is always a great sight, and a wonderful target to align your 'scope for a night's viewing. (A) is a blue white main sequence star, and (B) is a white dwarf. The pair is one of our closer neighbors, about eight and three quarters light years distant.

Out where I live, the seeing is spectacular. Back when I lived in Denver, I thought things were pretty clear, (and out in the mountians, around Leadville, the stars can be a religious experience) Yet, out here in Arkansas, well away from any major light pollution, I've always been rather amazed at how friggin' dark the skies are! The thread has got me wanting to drag out my Mead, and do some looking... unfortunately, it's going to be another month before I can do so without freezing my ass off.

So, it's back to the terminal, and read the reports on some of the latest exo-planets, while sipping a cuppa hot chocolate...

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