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APOD: Orion above Easter Island (2017 Sep 18)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:11 am
by APOD Robot
Orion above Easter Island
Explanation: Why were the statues on
Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 800 large stone statues exist there. The
Easter Island statues, stand, on the average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as much mass. Few specifics are known about the history or meaning of the
unusual rock sculptures, but many believe that they were created about 700 years ago in the
images of local leaders of a lost civilization. Featured here, one of the ancient
Moai sculptures was imaged in 2016 before the
constellation of Orion, including the famous line of
three belt stars and brilliant stars
Betelgeuse (far left in red) and
Rigel (upper center). The
stone giant appears, however, to be
inspecting the brightest star in the night sky (far right):
Sirius.
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Re: APOD: Orion above Easter Island (2017 Sep 18)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:25 am
by Ann
APOD Robot wrote:
Betelgeuse (far left in red)
If Betelgeuse had been a traffic light, I doubt we would have called it red!
Evocative image, though. The stone giant really seems to be contemplating Sirius, and the Universe itself.
Ann
Re: APOD: Orion above Easter Island (2017 Sep 18)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:03 am
by DL MARTIN
Who hasn't stood and star gazed exactly like that?
Re: APOD: Orion above Easter Island (2017 Sep 18)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:17 am
by Boomer12k
Actually, that is just perspective... He is actually looking 90 degrees to our right...off screen at something else....
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Re: APOD: Orion above Easter Island (2017 Sep 18)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:55 pm
by mnessly
Is this photo flipped left to right? I expected the dog star on the other side. Rigel and Betelgeuse seem flipped as well. Or am I revealing my nothern hemisphere biases.
Re: APOD: Orion above Easter Island (2017 Sep 18)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:55 pm
by ta152h0
Can you post, or repost, an image of the Southern Cross with the same type of flavor as this one. And one of the south pole, where i would be if it had a star in the location ?
Re: APOD: Orion above Easter Island (2017 Sep 18)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:16 pm
by Ann
ta152h0 wrote:Can you post, or repost, an image of the Southern Cross with the same type of flavor as this one. And one of the south pole, where i would be if it had a star in the location ?
I think the one at left looks pretty nice. Or maybe
this one. Or
this one, by ESO/B Tafreshi. The bright blue star at lower right is Acrux of the Southern Cross, and the large red nebula is of course the Carina Nebula.
Star trails around the South Celestial Pole. Photo: Ted Dobosz.
At right is a picture of star trails around the South Celestial Pole. Note the Magellanic Clouds. But there is no "Sirius" located close to the pole.
Here is a version of the top left image, overlaid with star trails. You can see where the South Celestial Pole is.
Ann
A fustian riddle!
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:26 pm
by neufer
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- Twelfth Night : Act II, scene V
MALVOLIO: M, O, A, I; this simulation is not as the former: and
- yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for
every one of these letters are in my name.
....................................................................
MALVOLIO: [Reads]
- I may command where I adore;
But silence, like a Lucrece knife,
With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore:
M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.
FABIAN: A fustian riddle!
SIR TOBY BELCH: Excellent wench, say I.
MALVOLIO: 'M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.' Nay, but first, let
- me see, let me see, let me see.
FABIAN: What dish o' poison has she dressed him!
SIR TOBY BELCH: And with what wing the staniel cheques at it!
MALVOLIO: 'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command
- me: I serve her; she is my lady. Why, this is
evident to any formal capacity; there is no
obstruction in this: and the end,--what should
that alphabetical position portend? If I could make
that resemble something in me,--Softly! M, O, A, I,--
Re: APOD: Orion above Easter Island (2017 Sep 18)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:32 pm
by neufer
Ann wrote:APOD Robot wrote:
Betelgeuse (far left in red)
If Betelgeuse had been a traffic light, I doubt we would have called it red!
Well...
just about to change to red then ... so we probably can't make it...
Re: APOD: Orion above Easter Island (2017 Sep 18)
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 5:36 am
by Ann
neufer wrote:Ann wrote:APOD Robot wrote:
Betelgeuse (far left in red)
If Betelgeuse had been a traffic light, I doubt we would have called it red!
Well...
just about to change to red then ... so we probably can't make it...
Look out!
Supernova crash!
(
A private little joke. I recently ran a yellow light, which was about to turn into red, and I was hit by a man who came from my right and was definitely running a red light.)
Ann
Re: APOD: Orion above Easter Island (2017 Sep 18)
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:32 pm
by neufer
Ann wrote:neufer wrote:Ann wrote:
If Betelgeuse had been a traffic light, I doubt we would have called it red!
Well...
just about to change to red then ... so we probably can't make it...
Look out!
Supernova crash! (
A private little joke. I recently ran a yellow light, which was about to turn into red, and I was hit by a man who came from my right and was definitely running a red light.)
Was this the guy who hit you:
http://bostonbikeparty.com/wp-content/u ... eeb8_c.jpg ?
A fustian riddle!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:25 pm
by neufer
<< *MOAI* are monolithic human figures carved from rock on
Easter Island, between 1250 & 1500 CE. Easter Island was
found and named by its first recorded European visitor,
the *DUTCH* explorer Jacob Roggeveen in 1722.>>
- Twelfth Night : Act III, scene i
OLIVIA: O, what a deal of scorn looks *BEAUTIFUL*- In the contempt and anger of his lip!
neufer wrote:----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Twelfth Night : Act II, scene V
MALVOLIO: M, O, A, I; this simulation is not as the former:
- and yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me,
for every one of these letters are in my name.
....................................................................
MALVOLIO: [Reads]
- I may command where I adore;
But silence, like a Lucrece knife,
With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore:
M, O, A, I, dOth swAy my lIfe.
FABIAN: A fustian riddle!
SIR TOBY BELCH: Excellent wench, say I.
MALVOLIO: 'M, O, A, I, dOth swAy my lIfe.'
- Nay, but first, let me see, let me see, let me see.
Code: Select all
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. [M. O. A. I.]
. d [O] t h
. s w [A] y
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[MOAI] skip 5 : Prob. ELS in repeated nonsense phrase ~ 1 in 1092
FABIAN:
What dish o' poison has she dressed him!
SIR TOBY BELCH:
And with what wing the staniel cheques at it!
MALVOLIO:
'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command
- me: I serve her; she is my lady. Why, this is
evident to any formal capacity; there is no
obstruction in this: and the end,--what should
that alphabetical position portend? If I could make
that resemble something in me,--Softly! M, O, A, I,--
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