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An Updated Astrological Calendar from 1544 – Western Hemisphere
This morning I was looking through the digital collection of maps at the Geography & Mapping Division of the Library of Congress and found this astrological calendar on the 4th page of a Battista...
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An Updated Astrological Calendar from 1544 – Eastern Hemisphere
About a month ago I made the first version of the map using the Western Hemisphere. At the time I didn’t even think about making a secondary map for the Eastern Hemisphere. Continue reading: In the...
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The Astro-Theological Overlays for Google Earth
Click on the image below to download the .kmz file [888 Kb] for Google Earth: Instead of just wrapping the Astrological Calendar from 1544 around the earth, today I decided to place the calendar...
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An updated Armillary Sphere
Above is an Armillary Sphere, which was used in ancient times as a celestial calendar. Created prior to the orrey, which is a helio-centric model, the Armillary Sphere allowed it’s user to know where...
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Found Celestial Cartography
As I mentioned before, lately I’ve been dabbling in the confluence of astrology & astromony. Last night when I was playing with the Interactive Astrological Calendar from 1544 for Google Earth, I...
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Holy See an Armillary Sphere?
Looks like there is an Armillary Sphere in the background. I find this interesting simply because an Armillary Sphere most likely has a pagan Zodiac on it. Two months ago I made those...
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Tycho Brahe’s Armillary Spheres
from www.tychobrahe.com So following up on yesterday’s entry about the armillary sphere on the Vatican News Services website. Today I read about the armillary spheres used by Tycho Brahe and was...
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(Mecca) is now Makkah
On August 12th, 2007 I took this screenshot for my blog entry related to the Astro-theological overlays for Google Earth. The project overlaid the zodiac on locations of religious importance: Vatican...
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Seen in the night sky last week
Two weeks ago I finished reading “Fated Sky” by Benson Bobrick. The book is a historical overview of prominent astrologers thoughout history like Ptolemy, Dee, Brahe, and Sibley (to name but a few). I...
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Moon Mars Conjunction
Screen grab from the Astroprof’s Page (Image produced using Stellarium) Last night my next door neighbor and I lugged the telescope to my rooftop to look at the night sky. It was an exceptional night...
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Tessellated Space
The Messier 101 Pinwheel Galaxy photographed by the Hubble Space TelescopeCourtesy of the European Space Agency & NASA Back in October, Georgetown English professor Mimi Yiu gave a presentation at...
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Messier 101 Mandala [birth/death of a star]
: saved at 12,000 X 12,000 : It was originally rendered at the normal size (216mp), but I decided to cut the center out and use the circular Mandala layout. Being that its my first use of tessellated...
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The Grand Design Lenz Quilt
: rendered at 9,000 X 6,000 : Using the elements from the Lenz Projection I was able to magnify portions of a tessellated Messier 101 Pinwheel Galaxy (a grand design galaxy) to create this fine...
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Staring at the Sun in Stellarium
Screen grab of Stellarium with the constellations art layer turned on Two screen grabs below with the azimuthal & equatorial grids turned on: Reading The Stars - Tacoma Times, September 1st,...
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The first glimpse of Mercury’s horizon
As the MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft’s Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) acquired an image mosaic of the...
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Astrophotography by Anthony Ayiomamitis – Analemma with the Parthenon
Following up on my antique sundials posting, I just came across this stunning photography by Anthony Ayiomamitis that shows the sun’s yearly orbit seen from a stationary points around various ancient...
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A New & Arabesque Map of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
:: saved at 6,480 x 5,040 :: To celebrate the new procedure I decided to get around to editing the Library of Congress‘ copy of Willem Janszoon Blaeu‘s Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac...
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The Use of the Analemma – As explained around 1780
A couple months ago I posted the astrophotography of Anthony Ayiomamitis and went into some cursory detail in explaining what an Analemma was. Last night I was perusing the on-line collection of maps...
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Jupiter traveling through the night sky of Washington, DC from Nikolas Schiller on Vimeo. Due to light pollution it’s very hard to observe the planets and stars at night in Washington, DC. However,...
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The Vicissitude of the Seasons Explained
The other day I posted the Analemma featured on Bowles 1780 Map of the World. Today I am posting another ancillary chart from the map that I thought was interesting. It is called the Vicissitude of the...
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