by neufer » Mon Dec 24, 2012 5:57 pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hexagon wrote:
<<The Winter Hexagon or Winter Circle/Oval is an asterism appearing to be in the form of a hexagon with vertices at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius. It is mostly upon the Northern Hemisphere's celestial sphere. On most locations on Earth (except the South Island of New Zealand and the south of Chile and Argentina and further south) this asterism is prominently in the sky from approximately December to March. In the tropics and southern hemisphere this (then called "summer hexagon") can be extended with the bright star Canopus in the south.
Smaller and more regularly shaped is the Winter Triangle (also known as the Great Southern Triangle), an approximately equilateral triangle that shares two vertices (Sirius and Procyon) with the larger asterism. The third vertex is Betelgeuse, which lies near the center of the hexagon. These three stars are three of the ten brightest objects, as viewed from Earth, outside the Solar System. Betelgeuse is also particularly easy to locate, being a shoulder of Orion, which assists stargazers in finding the triangle. Once the triangle is located, the larger hexagon may then be found. Several of the stars in the hexagon may also be found independently of one another by following various lines traced through various stars in Orion. The stars in the hexagon are parts of six constellations. Counter-clockwise around the hexagon, starting with Rigel, these are Orion, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini, Canis Minor, and Canis Major.>>
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. Don Quixote Part 2 CHAPTER XLI
.
"I don't understand that way of looking at things," said Sancho;
"I only know that your ladyship will do well to bear in mind that
as we were flying by enchantment so I might have seen the whole
earth and all the men by enchantment whatever way I looked; and
if you won't believe this, no more will you believe that,
uncovering myself nearly to the eyebrows, I saw myself so close
to the sky that there was not a palm & a half between me & it.
And it so happened we came by where the seven goats are . . ."
.
. Don Quixote replied,
.Click to play embedded YouTube video.
"we could not have reached that heaven where the seven goats
Sancho speaks of are without being burned; and as we were
not burned, either Sancho is lying or Sancho is DREAMing."
.
. "I am neither lying nor DREAMing," said Sancho;
. "only ask me the tokens of those same goats, and
you'll see by that whether I'm telling the TRUTH or not."
.
. "Tell us them then, Sancho," said the duchess.
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. "Two of them are green, [Procyon & Capella]
. "two blood-red," [Aldebaran & BetelGuese]
. "two blue, and" [Sirius & Rigel]
"one a mixture of all colours." [Castor/Pollux]
.
"An odd sort of goat, that," said the duke; "in this earthly region
of ours we have no such colours; I mean goats of such colours."[/i]
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[quote=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hexagon"]
[float=right][img3=""]http://www.souledout.org/nightsky/winterhexagon/winterhexagon.gif[/img3][/float]
<<The Winter Hexagon or Winter Circle/Oval is an asterism appearing to be in the form of a hexagon with vertices at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius. It is mostly upon the Northern Hemisphere's celestial sphere. On most locations on Earth (except the South Island of New Zealand and the south of Chile and Argentina and further south) this asterism is prominently in the sky from approximately December to March. In the tropics and southern hemisphere this (then called "summer hexagon") can be extended with the bright star Canopus in the south.
Smaller and more regularly shaped is the Winter Triangle (also known as the Great Southern Triangle), an approximately equilateral triangle that shares two vertices (Sirius and Procyon) with the larger asterism. The third vertex is Betelgeuse, which lies near the center of the hexagon. These three stars are three of the ten brightest objects, as viewed from Earth, outside the Solar System. Betelgeuse is also particularly easy to locate, being a shoulder of Orion, which assists stargazers in finding the triangle. Once the triangle is located, the larger hexagon may then be found. Several of the stars in the hexagon may also be found independently of one another by following various lines traced through various stars in Orion. The stars in the hexagon are parts of six constellations. Counter-clockwise around the hexagon, starting with Rigel, these are Orion, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini, Canis Minor, and Canis Major.>>[/quote]--------------------------------------------------------------
. Don Quixote Part 2 CHAPTER XLI
.
[i]"I don't understand that way of looking at things," said Sancho;
"I only know that your ladyship will do well to bear in mind that
as we were flying by enchantment so I might have seen the whole
earth and all the men by enchantment whatever way I looked; and
if you won't believe this, no more will you believe that,
uncovering myself nearly to the eyebrows, I saw myself so close
to the sky that there was not a palm & a half between me & it.
And it so happened we came by where the seven goats are . . ."
.
. Don Quixote replied,
.[float=right][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsnsTmlVS28[/youtube][/float]
"we could not have reached that heaven where the seven goats
Sancho speaks of are without being burned; and as we were
not burned, either Sancho is lying or Sancho is DREAMing."
.
. "I am neither lying nor DREAMing," said Sancho;
. "only ask me the tokens of those same goats, and
you'll see by that whether I'm telling the TRUTH or not."
.
. "Tell us them then, Sancho," said the duchess.
.
[b]. [color=#00BF00]"Two of them are green, [Procyon & Capella][/color]
. [color=#FF4000] "two blood-red," [Aldebaran & BetelGuese][/color]
. [color=#0000FF]"two blue, and" [Sirius & Rigel][/color]
[color=#FF00FF]"one a mixture of all colours." [Castor/Pollux][/b][/color]
.
"An odd sort of goat, that," said the duke; "in this earthly region
of ours we have no such colours; I mean goats of such colours."[/i]
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