remember the first time I saw a black sky of truth (not orange). I assure you it was not no kid. He caught me grown up. 18 years and would probably be an astronomer had already decided anyway. So I got some interest and I traveled out of town, isolated as possible from the lights to look up without blindfolds and see what the Universe. Getting off the car I did not believe. Literally. I did not think that in heaven there were so many bright spots. There were even areas where the number of bright spots was so great that no distinction between themselves and white dye seemed heaven. I promise that I thought someone was teasing me.
Someone has had to hire this show for the yokels of the city we see the stars (what most capitalist thinking, right? Everything money can buy!).
SkyView from a location away from city lights.
'm sure within a planet or something, I thought. This can not be real. I looked toward the car that we had come by if they entered a room, a tent in which they could project images as a preamble to what we expected. Perhaps simply that up there was a projected photograph or something. But no sir. Was in the middle of the village soccer field, with the lights off. I was up there the sky I was always refused, but was always there. How wonderful! What a feeling I had at that time!. And to think that they were simply dots of light on a black background. There was a guy in the group who had seen the sky before and was an amateur astronomer, so I knew more or less what were each of those points.
- That is Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. That is Jupiter, then we will see its moons. That constellation is Orion, which represents a warrior in the sky.
To me, honestly, if something reminded me of that little group of stars, was a coffee maker, not to any warrior. I started to miss and cut to that kid.
- Hey, how do you know that Jupiter is not a star anyone?
- The stars twinkle, planets like Jupiter, no.
guess that guy thought I was solucionado mis dudas, porque se fue con aires de superioridad a montar los telescopios. Pero yo allí me quedé, con cara de tonto y preguntándome mil cosas a la vez. ¿Porque parpadean las estrellas? ¿Y porque los planetas no? ¿Como lo hizo aquel chaval para reconocer la constelación de Orión entre todas las estrellas del cielo? Además, yo ya sabía que las estrellas no estaban fijas en el cielo, sino que se iban moviendo debido a que la Tierra gira. Así que, igual que el Sol, todas las estrellas del cielo salen y se ponen por el horizonte. Eso, sin duda, tenía que hacer difícil el reconocer las estrellas en el cielo.
Luego aprendí que aquello tenía truco. Lo entendí un día, estando in a bar in one of those swivel seats. I was bored, so I started to twist and turn. What sickness! People in front of me, turned very quickly and I already had some more beer, I started to get dizzy. So I stopped urging me and instinctively looked toward the ceiling, the light bulb had just above me as the chair slowly turned more and more each time. Watching the light bulb because it helped me, though I kept turning and turning, the bulb did not seem to move, and it allowed me to catch my breath.
Well, I mentioned that the Earth also rotates and that the stars move. But among all those stars had to be some that were just above us, still, as the bulb in that bar. And certainly, that star there. We called it 'North Star', precisely because it coincides with the axis of rotation of the Earth. In the North Pole, the star would be just above us all night, and the other stars seem to spin around. Since we are not at the North Pole, looking toward the star, the star seems to be fixed in the sky, we are also looking north.
The stars seem to revolve around Polaris if we take a photograph during the
long enough to observe the movement of the stars.
night is like a natural compass. And conversely, if we look to the North at that address must be the lodestar. The rest of the stars we can find better if we know where they are compared to the North Star.
And that is what, in fact, did that guy to find Orion. (Of course, I still believe that if he did not say was so impressed with how much he knew about the Universe. I confess that with me got his goal.)
