Star Search
Apr. 14th, 2006 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiI walked to the bus stop this morning when dawn was in the eastern sky but the sun had yet to make an appearance. The moon was full and still high in the west, and a little ways to the left of it was a bright star--so bright it had to be a planet. There was another bright star in the south-east, and I guessed it was a planet also.
When I got to work I did a websearch for star maps, and found a really nice-looking one that needed my latitude and longitude (which, sadly, I do not have memorized), and this one at Weather Underground that needed my zip code (which I do have memorized).
Checking the dawn sky with this map has left me with a mystery, as the south-western star appears to be Jupiter, but there doesn't seem to be any planets where the south-eastern star was. It might be Altair, but that doesn't seem right. The game's afoot! I need to look up my lat and long, and do some more map-hunting.
When I got to work I did a websearch for star maps, and found a really nice-looking one that needed my latitude and longitude (which, sadly, I do not have memorized), and this one at Weather Underground that needed my zip code (which I do have memorized).
Checking the dawn sky with this map has left me with a mystery, as the south-western star appears to be Jupiter, but there doesn't seem to be any planets where the south-eastern star was. It might be Altair, but that doesn't seem right. The game's afoot! I need to look up my lat and long, and do some more map-hunting.
