| spacecowboy2006 |
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| 03/09/08 02:50 PM |
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The Night Sky
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11 Placemarks trace the Milky Way, so as to see the most amount of stars in the night sky. Each Placemark has a brief description of that object within the plane of the Milky Way.
You can check all the icons for the folder, go to the first Placemark, and then move the image and try to follow the Milky Way.
You can view the Tour and let that do it for you.
You can zoom into each Placemark to see more data.
The Snaphot View for the Folder is an exaggeration to simulate the stars and Milky Way as seen from wilderness far away from cities. Best viewed in a darkened room.
Each Placemark is at roughly the same distance from the viewer; I tried to make it to look slightly better that normal vision. Besides using a telescope, you can lay on your back and use binoculars.
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The Night Sky
The human view of the night sky was once always from a dark region, un-lit by no more than fire. The stars and constellations were a wonder and a marvel.
Light reaching earth from the full sphere of distant space is now overwhelmed by an ever-expanding artificial glare. We have become blind to the night sky, as sensitivity toward the environment declines. And we see the universe in space movies.__________
Lights on Earth
It is still possible in places to see the night sky with millions of stars, and the Milky Way arcing the Zenith.
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And as we lie, our faces to the heavens, the stars how they shine! As we gaze, they call us into the far regions of thought, singing the song of creation’s dawn. From the bottom of a canyon where I lie alone, I hear that song the best, as the constellations swing into view over the rim of the rocks, the same stars the shepherds looked at on the plains, thousands of years ago. How many tubes are pointed at them even tonight. Mills of God, every one of them grinding out gusts of light, sending a blessing to each living creature in the sea, on the land, in every nook and corner, the height and depth of the round globe itself. On this shining spark in the firmament every crystal is throbbing, sleeping, yet waking — the quartz, mica, feldspar, tourmaline, hornblende, garnet. What a picture of celestial industry is beheld in the heavens! What a storm of harmonious motion, enduring forever, abating never! Worlds in motion are pulsed through space like the beating of our own hearts, like the myriad globules in the blood of plants and animals…. Everything in the wilderness is revolving through life like the stars in their places, always within measured bounds though seemingly boundless.
John Muir, 1872