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The Winter Circle

The Winter Circle. Would you please answer on your Do Now sheet…. In what direction do you look to see Orion tonight at 9 pm? What asterism helps you find it?. The winter circle. The Winter Circle. Orion. http://www.zazzle.com/vintage_orion_constellation_poster-228023600320509351.

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The Winter Circle

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  1. The Winter Circle

  2. Would you please answer on your Do Now sheet… • In what direction do you look to see Orion tonight at 9 pm? • What asterism helps you find it?

  3. The winter circle The Winter Circle

  4. Orion http://www.zazzle.com/vintage_orion_constellation_poster-228023600320509351

  5. http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations/Orion.htmlhttp://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations/Orion.html

  6. http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Constellation-of-Orion

  7. Winter Hexagon- asterism

  8. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap021106.html

  9. Winter Circle 1/ 7 /2002

  10. http://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/astronomyimagesC/wintercircle.gifhttp://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/astronomyimagesC/wintercircle.gif

  11. The Seven Sisters Pleiades http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pleiades_large.jpg

  12. ElihuVedder (1836–1923) The Pleiades 1885 Oil on canvas • After Atlas was forced to carry the heavens on his shoulders, Orion began to pursue all of the Pleiades, and Zeus transformed them first into doves, and then into stars to comfort their father. The constellation of Orion is said to still pursue them across the night sky.

  13. Greek poet Hesiod • "And if longing seizes you for sailing the stormy seas, when the Pleiades flee mighty Orion and plunge into the misty deep and all the gusty winds are raging, then do not keep your ship on the wine-dark sea but, as I bid you, remember to work the land." • (Works and Days 618-23)

  14. The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione. As daughters of Atlas, the Hyades were sisters of the Pleiades. The English name of the cluster itself is of Greek origin, though of uncertain etymology. Suggested derivations include: from πλεîνpleîn, to sail, making the Pleiades the "sailing ones"; from pleos, full or many; or from peleiades, flock of doves.

  15. http://www.navaching.com/swest/naji.gifs/pleiades.gif

  16. Other names • Subaru- Japanese • Hard flint boys- Navajo • Sailing Stars- Greek sailors would only set out if they could see these stars • Rainy Stars- beginning of Autumnal rainy season in ancient times

  17. February- Pleiades overhead

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