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"Sam Wormley" wrote in message ... Sam Wormley wrote: " wrote: If you had mag 6.5+ skies tonight. How many stars could you name without a chart, strictly from memory? 40-50 I include planets and visible Messier objects in my counts. OK, I went out and checked. Not including planets or M-objects, but including some stars that I can name only by Bayer letter, I came up with the following: Alpheratz Gamma Andr. Beta, Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Iota Cass. Alpha Per. Algol Polaris Kochab Aldebaran Merope Capella Beta Tauri Rigel Betelgeuse Sigma Ori. Theta Ori. Sirius Procyon Castor Pollux Alula Borealis, Alula Australis (yes, I know this is a weird one!) That's 26 stars that were in the sky at 11 p.m. at my latitude. |
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"Sam Wormley" wrote in message ... Sam Wormley wrote: " wrote: If you had mag 6.5+ skies tonight. How many stars could you name without a chart, strictly from memory? 40-50 I include planets and visible Messier objects in my counts. OK, I went out and checked. Not including planets or M-objects, but including some stars that I can name only by Bayer letter, I came up with the following: Alpheratz Gamma Andr. Beta, Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Iota Cass. Alpha Per. Algol Polaris Kochab Aldebaran Merope Capella Beta Tauri Rigel Betelgeuse Sigma Ori. Theta Ori. Sirius Procyon Castor Pollux Alula Borealis, Alula Australis (yes, I know this is a weird one!) That's 26 stars that were in the sky at 11 p.m. at my latitude. |
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"Sam Wormley" wrote in message ... Sam Wormley wrote: " wrote: If you had mag 6.5+ skies tonight. How many stars could you name without a chart, strictly from memory? 40-50 I include planets and visible Messier objects in my counts. OK, I went out and checked. Not including planets or M-objects, but including some stars that I can name only by Bayer letter, I came up with the following: Alpheratz Gamma Andr. Beta, Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Iota Cass. Alpha Per. Algol Polaris Kochab Aldebaran Merope Capella Beta Tauri Rigel Betelgeuse Sigma Ori. Theta Ori. Sirius Procyon Castor Pollux Alula Borealis, Alula Australis (yes, I know this is a weird one!) That's 26 stars that were in the sky at 11 p.m. at my latitude. |
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"Michael A. Covington" wrote:
"Sam Wormley" wrote in message ... Sam Wormley wrote: " wrote: If you had mag 6.5+ skies tonight. How many stars could you name without a chart, strictly from memory? 40-50 I include planets and visible Messier objects in my counts. OK, I went out and checked. Not including planets or M-objects, but including some stars that I can name only by Bayer letter, I came up with the following: Alpheratz Gamma Andr. Beta, Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Iota Cass. Alpha Per. Algol Polaris Kochab Aldebaran Merope Capella Beta Tauri Rigel Betelgeuse Sigma Ori. Theta Ori. Sirius Procyon Castor Pollux Alula Borealis, Alula Australis (yes, I know this is a weird one!) That's 26 stars that were in the sky at 11 p.m. at my latitude. I include.... Alnitak Alnilam Mintaka Alioth Alkaid Mizar Alcor (not Al Gore) Dubhe Merek Alcyone Deneb Scheat Markab Mirfak Fomalhaut Mira (when I can see it) Hamal etc. I don't know... I guess I got in the habit of seeing how many things I could identify by a valid astronomical name when going out for walks under skys with broken clouds... and mentally I wouldn't count them if I couldn't put a name to them. |
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"Michael A. Covington" wrote:
"Sam Wormley" wrote in message ... Sam Wormley wrote: " wrote: If you had mag 6.5+ skies tonight. How many stars could you name without a chart, strictly from memory? 40-50 I include planets and visible Messier objects in my counts. OK, I went out and checked. Not including planets or M-objects, but including some stars that I can name only by Bayer letter, I came up with the following: Alpheratz Gamma Andr. Beta, Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Iota Cass. Alpha Per. Algol Polaris Kochab Aldebaran Merope Capella Beta Tauri Rigel Betelgeuse Sigma Ori. Theta Ori. Sirius Procyon Castor Pollux Alula Borealis, Alula Australis (yes, I know this is a weird one!) That's 26 stars that were in the sky at 11 p.m. at my latitude. I include.... Alnitak Alnilam Mintaka Alioth Alkaid Mizar Alcor (not Al Gore) Dubhe Merek Alcyone Deneb Scheat Markab Mirfak Fomalhaut Mira (when I can see it) Hamal etc. I don't know... I guess I got in the habit of seeing how many things I could identify by a valid astronomical name when going out for walks under skys with broken clouds... and mentally I wouldn't count them if I couldn't put a name to them. |
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"Michael A. Covington" wrote:
"Sam Wormley" wrote in message ... Sam Wormley wrote: " wrote: If you had mag 6.5+ skies tonight. How many stars could you name without a chart, strictly from memory? 40-50 I include planets and visible Messier objects in my counts. OK, I went out and checked. Not including planets or M-objects, but including some stars that I can name only by Bayer letter, I came up with the following: Alpheratz Gamma Andr. Beta, Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Iota Cass. Alpha Per. Algol Polaris Kochab Aldebaran Merope Capella Beta Tauri Rigel Betelgeuse Sigma Ori. Theta Ori. Sirius Procyon Castor Pollux Alula Borealis, Alula Australis (yes, I know this is a weird one!) That's 26 stars that were in the sky at 11 p.m. at my latitude. I include.... Alnitak Alnilam Mintaka Alioth Alkaid Mizar Alcor (not Al Gore) Dubhe Merek Alcyone Deneb Scheat Markab Mirfak Fomalhaut Mira (when I can see it) Hamal etc. I don't know... I guess I got in the habit of seeing how many things I could identify by a valid astronomical name when going out for walks under skys with broken clouds... and mentally I wouldn't count them if I couldn't put a name to them. |
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"Michael A. Covington" wrote:
"Sam Wormley" wrote in message ... Sam Wormley wrote: " wrote: If you had mag 6.5+ skies tonight. How many stars could you name without a chart, strictly from memory? 40-50 I include planets and visible Messier objects in my counts. OK, I went out and checked. Not including planets or M-objects, but including some stars that I can name only by Bayer letter, I came up with the following: Alpheratz Gamma Andr. Beta, Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Iota Cass. Alpha Per. Algol Polaris Kochab Aldebaran Merope Capella Beta Tauri Rigel Betelgeuse Sigma Ori. Theta Ori. Sirius Procyon Castor Pollux Alula Borealis, Alula Australis (yes, I know this is a weird one!) That's 26 stars that were in the sky at 11 p.m. at my latitude. I include.... Alnitak Alnilam Mintaka Alioth Alkaid Mizar Alcor (not Al Gore) Dubhe Merek Alcyone Deneb Scheat Markab Mirfak Fomalhaut Mira (when I can see it) Hamal etc. I don't know... I guess I got in the habit of seeing how many things I could identify by a valid astronomical name when going out for walks under skys with broken clouds... and mentally I wouldn't count them if I couldn't put a name to them. |
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A lot!
When I was a teenager I had no telescope and spent maybe 2 years completing a mapping of the local horizon of my observing site (i.e. naked-eye astronomy: timing the rising and setting of stars and plotting them on the sliding cellophane bit of my movable chart). I thoroughly learnt the sky in the process. I never need a map to get my way around the sky (except for deep sky because I don't know where the object precisely is). Next type of game I invented myself was to identify stars in sucker holes (now that's tricky!). Then I developed a totally overblown interest in star names (really bordering on obsession, I have three shelves of books on the subject), especially the ones that are not commonly known (because I find the names beautiful and culturally full of meaning, to answer Michael Covington). If I had a good transparent sky tonight, which I haven't had in ages, I think I could identify at least 100 distinct stars by their way more than 100 proper names. Okay, now I'll have to try that... Clear skies to all, Pierre, Switzerland |
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A lot!
When I was a teenager I had no telescope and spent maybe 2 years completing a mapping of the local horizon of my observing site (i.e. naked-eye astronomy: timing the rising and setting of stars and plotting them on the sliding cellophane bit of my movable chart). I thoroughly learnt the sky in the process. I never need a map to get my way around the sky (except for deep sky because I don't know where the object precisely is). Next type of game I invented myself was to identify stars in sucker holes (now that's tricky!). Then I developed a totally overblown interest in star names (really bordering on obsession, I have three shelves of books on the subject), especially the ones that are not commonly known (because I find the names beautiful and culturally full of meaning, to answer Michael Covington). If I had a good transparent sky tonight, which I haven't had in ages, I think I could identify at least 100 distinct stars by their way more than 100 proper names. Okay, now I'll have to try that... Clear skies to all, Pierre, Switzerland |
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A lot!
When I was a teenager I had no telescope and spent maybe 2 years completing a mapping of the local horizon of my observing site (i.e. naked-eye astronomy: timing the rising and setting of stars and plotting them on the sliding cellophane bit of my movable chart). I thoroughly learnt the sky in the process. I never need a map to get my way around the sky (except for deep sky because I don't know where the object precisely is). Next type of game I invented myself was to identify stars in sucker holes (now that's tricky!). Then I developed a totally overblown interest in star names (really bordering on obsession, I have three shelves of books on the subject), especially the ones that are not commonly known (because I find the names beautiful and culturally full of meaning, to answer Michael Covington). If I had a good transparent sky tonight, which I haven't had in ages, I think I could identify at least 100 distinct stars by their way more than 100 proper names. Okay, now I'll have to try that... Clear skies to all, Pierre, Switzerland |
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