alien night sky

as mentioned alpha centauri skies have similar constellation patterns but additional stars  the most obvious being the sun as chief star in the  combined Perseus and Cassiopeia  constellation "the harper "  nearby is the long  constellation  taking up most of the sky i call the storm sisters  with orion  as the archer  in the jaws of the storm sister Sirius and betelgeuse by their position are seen as a very bright double star   but to alpha centauri  myth are they lovers, brothers or enemies ?

 The sirius  betelgeuse star was once million of years ago  bright Sirius B when it shone as a prehistoric bright star  "Red Sirius"  where as  Red Betelgeuse is only ten million years old  "born after the death" of red Sirius so interesting alien skies  in the distant past  which may have  been celebrated in alien myth

the star compass lost in the rain

got design of my star compass ok using rising of Polaris as marker and the summer/winter  triangle  but as typical  lack a summer in england
  as with other garden ornaments  eventually the star compass rots away  if  kept outside all year   just in case anyone does not know the sound of a british summer try this
best run it in a loop for best effect  things tend to go  mouldy ever read  weinbaums the Parasite planet just like england in June



alien astrolabe  going well  believe that orbit of alpha centauri B  a 80 year circle from  capella  to apheratz
sun situated in  middle of  the milky way as brightest star next to conjunction of sirius and betelgeuse
check it out on astronexus website  or software like astrofly  quite a beautiful sky

cardboard kits of scientific instruments

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found a really great website
that sells make yourself carboard kits of nocturnals, orreys,sextant and telecope kits
thinking of an excuse to buy them all


given up on sending my poems to magazines that want you to buy your work as one poem in an anthology see little different between the bridport prize and the vanity press forward books
no room in me for vanity or anthology as do not actually like poetry as a subject

alien sky astrolabe

created this rough sketch of how the constellations are seen from alpha centauri years ago note emphasis on large lines making up long constellation and combinations of what we see as separate star patterns into one the aliens sky shows the sun as large star in cassipeia the harper on the map
so as the rhymme goes ,"harper, archer, water slayer,fear the slayer, death the bride, third sister, bright dancer to blind watcher"

proxima centauri i believe is somewhere at the bottom the map near the storm sister constellation between harper and archer
the orbit of alphacenturi B crosses the central halfas visible to a planet at 27 degrees axil tilt
supernovas the most important are marked on the sketch and bright stars would be important to a culture basing its calendar on the night sky and the two suns AB 81 year orbit across his sky by day and night
building a astrolabe of the centauri constellation still at foundation stage but more of art work than science project
check out astrofly software