And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, February 8, 2020
For whatever reason, I can always find Cassiopeia in the night sky. Now I'm going to have to use that to learn myself to find the Andromeda Galaxy as well.
See the distance between the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the star in the leg of Andromeda (the constellation)? The same distance from the other star, marked Mirach, gets you to another prominent galaxy, the Triangulum galaxy (M33). Not as easy to see, especially if you're in any size city because its surface brightness is lower. I think you can get into really dark skies fairly easily. A lot easier than I can.
Tonight is the biggest full moon of the year...
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice set up that you have, CW.
ReplyDeleteThat's not mine, it's just a picture off the internet, but it is a nice setup. I just use my two eyeballs.
ReplyDeleteSee the distance between the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the star in the leg of Andromeda (the constellation)? The same distance from the other star, marked Mirach, gets you to another prominent galaxy, the Triangulum galaxy (M33). Not as easy to see, especially if you're in any size city because its surface brightness is lower. I think you can get into really dark skies fairly easily. A lot easier than I can.
ReplyDeleteFinder map at EarthSky.org
"Galaxy" is a huge word! Maybe "word" is wrong.. a galaxy is a huge number of stars... Ya, "huge" is good!
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