Posted on 01/01/2021 4:30:22 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: The South Celestial Pole is easy to spot in star trail images of the southern sky. The extension of Earth's axis of rotation to the south, it's at the center of all the southern star trail arcs. In this starry panorama streching about 60 degrees across deep southern skies the South Celestial Pole is somewhere near the middle though, flanked by bright galaxies and southern celestial gems. Across the top of the frame are the stars and nebulae along the plane of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Gamma Crucis, a yellowish giant star heads the Southern Cross near top center, with the dark expanse of the Coalsack nebula tucked under the cross arm on the left. Eta Carinae and the reddish glow of the Great Carina Nebula shine along the galactic plane near the right edge. At the bottom are the Large and Small Magellanic clouds, external galaxies in their own right and satellites of the mighty Milky Way. A line from Gamma Crucis through the blue star at the bottom of the southern cross, Alpha Crucis, points toward the South Celestial Pole, but where exactly is it? Just look for south pole star Sigma Octantis. Analog to Polaris the north pole star, Sigma Octantis is little over one degree fom the the South Celestial pole.
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Itās a new year so Iām going to try and tighten up my views on these photos.
It looks like a shamwow being torn to pieces by Casper The Friendly Ghost.
Heh. I was thinking it looked like (1) Santa’s sleigh, with Rudolph’s nose at the very right; or (2) the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Look at all those UFOs!
You forgot to mention the twirling cheeseburger, all lit with Christmas lights.
See, what you have is known as Recency Bias.
Thereās been a lot of talk about Rudolph lately, so you would be looking for him.
Your seeing the Four Horseman is known as Drunk As A Skunk Bias.
Oh
You saw my Christmas decorations.
Do you know what I made that big cheeseburger out of?
A big hamburger with a slice of cheese.
Hey! I haven’t been drunk in a full 24 hours! LOL
This recipe, along with many others, is found in my new cookbook
Girling On The BBQ With blueunicorn6
Girling?
Decides not to attend blueunicorn6 New Years Party.
Oh, you are waaaaay too late for my party.
It was a hootnanny!
We played jacks until at least 8pm.
Looks like there is a dove or eagle about to land on the large Magellanic cloud...while pooping.
Or I would have if we had gotten around to scheduling it.
Or joining the club.
Or forming a club.
Other then that it was a good reason.
Unbelievable the number of stars!! And that’s just from our galaxy and there are billions of galaxies.
Puts in perspective how insignificant we are in the great scheme of things.
Rudolph had the ‘rona, Santa pressed the Four Horsemen into pulling the sleigh...
We are on a microscope slide in a laboratory.
Or we are in a locker.....
https://youtu.be/i42gFBH8kOo?t=14
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