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

life on other planets and other evolved life

Despite being an IT tutor I used the internet this week looking for the new Dinosaurs by dougal Dixon couldn't even get it at amazon at decent price
looking around i found a online scanned version of the whole book on http://www.sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Dixon_2/00_en.htm#fore
contain my excitement !!
reading the book online i found it to be mainly dinosaur shaped modern animals lots of giraffe and din0-lope like grazers, ocean life shows dino-penquins and pliosaur whales
interesting is that what life is like on another world?

i had watched the series the future is wild years ago and knew it was based on a book called after man but this seemed out of print
yet again the russian website had a scanned version which shows completely different evolved rats and monkeys fronm the series
reminds me of the old joke what do you call a creature the size of a mouse that has a natural sixth sense to predict the future ? answer the dominant species on planet Earth!

I also remembered a website on exoplanets i looked at in 2007 and found it online many such computer art sites showing computer generated sunrise and sunset views of alien worlds mainly worlds cold and shining -two of my bryce 5.5 created examples above

had the feeling that any aliens looking towards earth will be not waving but mooning at us