Amateur Astronomers?

[CowboyMcCoy]

Hey, I just came across this site. You have to download a software. But it gives you a really cool view of the sky and you can play with time, etc. I know most people aren't interested in stuff like this. But I love reading about astronomy even though I only understand basic mathematics behind it. Here, you can sort of watch it in action.

www.stellarium.org

Hope you enjoy.

 

[Rynie]

Where's NYC ???

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Where's NYC ???

First thing I thought as well.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

First thing I thought as well.

You can change the view to suit your location, but I assume you're talking about nyc the poster.

 

[notherbob]

I down loaded it a month or two ago but since this is my busy season I haven't had time to mess with it yet.

From what I have read, it has a facility that you can use to draw your own constellations and I have a use for that. I have made a few archeoastronomical discoveries, including the constellations of the ancient people who inhabited the Paint Rock, Texas area and left rock paintings, many of which were astronomical in meaning. This software should allow me to draw out their constellations and watch them as they make their way around the sky during the year.

I have also discovered that Kokopelli was a spring constellation in the eyes of the Navajo (Dine) and other ancient southwestern peoples. It is mostly the Big Dipper but also includes parts of Bootes and the little dipper. Kokopelli was the God of Fertility of these peoples and a spring constellation.

Click here if you want to know more about it: http://gourmetgarlicgardens.com/paintrock.html

The Navajo Thunderbird is the constellation we call Cygnus the Swan in the summer sky. That is the same constellation the Fremont culture in Utah pictured as a great mesomorphic figure in petroglyphs everywhere in Utah. All of those scenes are the summer sky as they saw it and their legends were tied to the movements of those stars, which affected their lives greatly as they were used as guides as to when to plant crops to insure the tribe's survival. They had to be right every time.

The Indians saw different things in the sky than the Greeks did.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I down loaded it a month or two ago but since this is my busy season I haven't had time to mess with it yet.

From what I have read, it has a facility that you can use to draw your own constellations and I have a use for that. I have made a few archeoastronomical discoveries, including the constellations of the ancient people who inhabited the Paint Rock, Texas area and left rock paintings, many of which were astronomical in meaning. This software should allow me to draw out their constellations and watch them as they make their way around the sky during the year.

I have also discovered that Kokopelli was a spring constellation in the eyes of the Navajo (Dine) and other ancient southwestern peoples. It is mostly the Big Dipper but also includes parts of Bootes and the little dipper. Kokopelli was the God of Fertility of these peoples and a spring constellation.

Click here if you want to know more about it: http://gourmetgarlicgardens.com/paintrock.html

The Navajo Thunderbird is the constellation we call Cygnus the Swan in the summer sky. That is the same constellation the Fremont culture in Utah pictured as a great mesomorphic figure in petroglyphs everywhere in Utah. All of those scenes are the summer sky as they saw it and their legends were tied to the movements of those stars, which affected their lives greatly as they were used as guides as to when to plant crops to insure the tribe's survival. They had to be right every time.

The Indians saw different things in the sky than the Greeks did.

No doubt, and the greeks were wrong about a lot of things too. Very cool link. Good job on the historical/archeological/astronomical analysis.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I down loaded it a month or two ago but since this is my busy season I haven't had time to mess with it yet.

From what I have read, it has a facility that you can use to draw your own constellations and I have a use for that. I have made a few archeoastronomical discoveries, including the constellations of the ancient people who inhabited the Paint Rock, Texas area and left rock paintings, many of which were astronomical in meaning. This software should allow me to draw out their constellations and watch them as they make their way around the sky during the year.

I have also discovered that Kokopelli was a spring constellation in the eyes of the Navajo (Dine) and other ancient southwestern peoples. It is mostly the Big Dipper but also includes parts of Bootes and the little dipper. Kokopelli was the God of Fertility of these peoples and a spring constellation.

Click here if you want to know more about it: http://gourmetgarlicgardens.com/paintrock.html

The Navajo Thunderbird is the constellation we call Cygnus the Swan in the summer sky. That is the same constellation the Fremont culture in Utah pictured as a great mesomorphic figure in petroglyphs everywhere in Utah. All of those scenes are the summer sky as they saw it and their legends were tied to the movements of those stars, which affected their lives greatly as they were used as guides as to when to plant crops to insure the tribe's survival. They had to be right every time.

The Indians saw different things in the sky than the Greeks did.

LOL, Bob, your website is amazing. I may order some garlic from you really soon. I was just lurking on it and reading. Good stuff on the research on garlic, et cetera. I think I'll throw some in a juice tomorrow.

 

[kristie]

You can change the view to suit your location, but I assume you're talking about nyc the poster.

i think that's exactly what he meant. :laugh2:

 

[YosemiteSam]

Stellarium rocks. I've been using it for years. I'm an open source guy too. Just another reason I know about it.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

i think that's exactly what he meant. :laugh2:

Yeah, I sort of knew nyc was one of the few interested in this stuff. But I've been thinking of getting a telescope lately. I think I would enjoy it if not for all the city lights around here.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Yeah, I sort of knew nyc was one of the few interested in this stuff. But I've been thinking of getting a telescope lately. I think I would enjoy it if not for all the city lights around here.

If you do buy a telescope, be sure to ask me about the blue and white block image in my .sig

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

If you do buy a telescope, be sure to ask me about the blue and white block image in my .sig

I may buy one, but I'm just pondering the idea. What is the sig about? Ah, forecasting.

 

[bbgun]

No Uranus jokes yet? I'm impressed.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

No Uranus jokes yet? I'm impressed.

PM me, sweetheart. I miss your Uranus so much.