reading some of my 19th century astronomy books hand drawn and fuzzy pictures of nebula use of defunct constellations and shared stars such as gamma aurigae
and pre 1922 constellations argo navilis, Noctua, Anser and Robur
robert balls 1890s astronomy has section on novas and the flaring of nova cygni over a few days in 1876 and eta carinae the recent nova (recent as in 1843) eta carinae whose bright fuzz is so beloved of hubble is the candidate for the next supernova or is that unstable betelgeuse
I always wanted to witness a night sky supernova
supernova betelgeuse would any one notice ?
would a supernova get on twitter mix of big star in sky like bethlehem or "end of world by gamma ray burst from death star"
however not happening in this century
the sun is a bright star to the left of orion as viewed from barnards star so would betelgeuse supernova made a fine view-if no one there to watch it
eta carinae would need to explode in feb march to be visible here at a proper time ie before 10pm
prehistory got the best ie veil nebula in cygnus either 40000 or 5000 years ago would cygnus be viewed more as " man killed by beast " by stone age myths than as greek swan
expect most stone age constellation shapes variation on man killed by beast
it is often cited dark age europe too busy to see the 1054 supernova what did they miss see above for yourself
noticed that quite by accident most of my short poems are either 140 charactors in length ideal for twitter longer stuff at 275 words just the right size for ipad
been thinking on exo planets just before i drop off to sleep and then hopefully dream of them
did not someone called ingo swann do something called planet dreaming in 1974
dreamt i was able to view planets around binary suns either alpha centauri gamma lepus era cassiopeiae tau cygni
as with all dreams mix of deja vu and surrealism ie saw mariner flyby wide expanse of blue and white block garden with roller coaster hall towers by illuminated sea low with cloud ice
this may be psychic vision pf light years distance or a pre memory of some CGI effect of some yet unmade blockbuster star wars VII Heir to the Empire or Issac Asimov's Foundation the movie of which only foundation and empire would make a decent two movies the campaigns of imperial general Bel Roise and the second movie the Mule
noted much on discovery of two planets sharing same orbit but separated by 60 degrees what is this a star trek episode ? shades of saturnian moons tethys taptho calypso and the hadean collision of proto earth and Theia a slow catchup of two co orbital planets and creation of the moon while earth inherits theia iron core thats the theory
are binary stars and co orbital planets the norm
two months since left adult education sector with redundancy and now feel out of it for ever
at the last week before christmas two unsucessful interviews at the local further education college both non teaching but in areas I have experience in
from national award winner last year to on dole this year but as said has foreseen it in 2007
2013 better
written out of my organisations website as they carry on without me
16 years faithful service even if the final year one of 2/10 job satisfaction empty classes and too high targets to achieve
will E publish the collectipn of at least 60 poems theragletters in 2013 and add new stuff to the third collection much of the first book christoipher lantern old stuff some of the more cryptic ie inannas boat explained in sequels in the ragletters
