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De58te wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:42 am This is interesting. If it wasn't for the 'us' the names Kentaurus and Centauri almost rhymes. It would even be closer if you pronounced the C as a hard C like in the words cat, candle or Canada. I've always pronounced Centauri with a soft C as in cent, city, or celebrity. Which makes me wonder, how is Centauri officially pronounced? Hard C or soft C?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_Wally%3F_(book) wrote:

Orbital plot of Proxima Centauri showing its position with respect to Alpha Centauri over the coming millenia (graduations are in thousands of years). The large number of background stars is due to the fact that Proxima Cen is located very close to the plane of the Milky Way. P. Kervella (CNRS/U. of Chile/Observatoire de Paris/LESIA), ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2, D. De Martin/M. Zamani

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<<Where's Wally?, published in the United States and Canada as Where's Waldo?, is the title of the first book in the Where's Wally? series, published in 1987. In the book, Wally travels to everyday places, where he sends postcards to the reader (which are the pictures in the book), and the reader must locate Wally in the postcard. The book became an instant best-seller. Where's Wally? was re-released in October 1997 in a special 10th anniversary edition form. The location of Wally was changed in each picture and additional characters were added for the reader to find (Woof, Wizard Whitebeard, Wenda, Odlaw, the Wally Watchers, and others).

The Wally series is quite evocative of an earlier children's book titled Where's Wallace? (by Hilary Knight), in which a red-headed orangutan escapes from the zoo and "hides" in highly detailed picture panoramas, including beach, department store, circus, stadium, and museum.

The book has been challenged in libraries and schools because of a topless woman near the upper right of the "On the Beach" scene. It ranks #87 on the American Library Association's "100 Most Frequently Challenged Books" list (1990-1999) because of the exposed breast. The woman is wearing a bikini top in the 1997 special edition release. A similar happening occurs in "The Campsite" where children open a tent on a man while he is undressing. In the original, although his genitals are blocked from view by his hand, he is clearly naked. In the 1997 special release, however, he is wearing white briefs.>>

rcolombari wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:51 am

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Thanks for featuring my image as APOD!

I think I figured out where Proxima Centauri is in the field:

Am I right??

Best regards

rcolombari wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:51 am Thanks for featuring my image as APOD!

I think I figured out where Proxima Centauri is in the field:

Click to view full size image

Am I right??

Best regards

rcolombari wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:51 am Thanks for featuring my image as APOD!

I think I figured out where Proxima Centauri is in the field:

Click to view full size image

Am I right??

NGC3314 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:26 pm

rcolombari wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:51 am Thanks for featuring my image as APOD!

I think I figured out where Proxima Centauri is in the field:

Click to view full size image

Am I right??

I agree on the ID. Here is a 2014 image I did with a remote telescope (field about 10 arcminutes), where the ID was confirmed by the motion year-to-year (and huge change since the digitized Sky Survey photographs). Comparison shows its proper motion from 2014 to your image, as well. It sure looks like a long way from Alpha.

Jim Kaler wrote:
Alpha Centauri has yet another member, a faint eleventh magnitude (11.05) companion called "Proxima" that is a huge 1.85 degrees (at least 8500 AU) away from Alpha proper and that orbits with a period of at least a three-quarters of a million years. If indeed it does orbit (and that is not certain), it is now on the near side of its path and some 6,000 astronomical units closer than the bright pair, making it actually the closest known star (but since it is part of Alpha, surely it is still fair to call Alpha the closest star).