Betelgeuse!.........
Betelgeuse!.........
Betelgeuse!........................
If I am around, I’ll be out watching it!
If you vill not eat ze bugs, zen ve vill grind up ze smoothie und make you drink ze bugs. I call it Beetle Juice.
Find the constellation of Orion, "the hunter." The star that marks the hunter's left shoulder (from your vantagepoint) looks conspicuously red.
That is Betelgeuse. Easy-peasy.
Thanks for posting, Red Badger.
This is the most concise and best written essay on supernovas I have read.
My previous knowledge was just the BOOM basics.
Photos of the Mass Ejection are completely amazing.
Greater than Halley’s Comet, which I was told since the 1960’s was a lifetime event?
*Halley’s Comet was a bust.
This will RUIN the constellation Orion.
When it happens, be somewhere else.
More global warming.
I thought I read that a supenova releases intense gamma ray jets.
If aimed at earth, might not be so harmless?
Women and minorities hardest hit.
And, of course...
Trump’s fault!
And it's because Betelgeuse was not as bright as other stars around Orion.
You see, a sextant can only get an accurate navigational fix only two times of day: sunrise and sunset. (not counting Sun and planet fixes)
Around sunrise and sunset there's often a very narrow window of time (maybe 20 minutes?) when the sextant user has a clear enough horizon to accurately measure the angular height ( in degrees ) between the star and the horizon.
Ideally you need three good sightings where the stars (or planets) are located at wide enough horizontal distance from each other to create a triangular fix on your navigation chart.
I bought a sextant once because I was in the Navy and thought sextants were cool tools. And I read a great little book:
The value of that book boiled down one key sentence I have remembered for 50 years:
Hover your mouse over the words above to see the brightest "navigation-ready" stars around Orion.
If you memorize that little ditty and the circular path of finding them in the night's sky, you have little trouble getting accurate celestial readings
Now I understand a clever high school teacher added to the mnemonic to loop back to Betelgeuse. Here it is:
And here's a Britannica link showing the brightest stars in night sky.
So like squashing a bug, there will be beetle juice everywhere.
November 5th 2024
turning a link into a live link does not, alas, work in an initial post. As Beetlejuice might say, “don’t you hate it when that happens?”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Betelgeuse