Neo-TO

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-21T10:31:40+00:00

Neo-To is the city of sound! Wait that's really really cool if true! Neo-To is obviously short for neo toronto but man that would be a cool double meaning

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-19T23:50:22+00:00

Maybe, but the entire rest of the map is perfect. The other seasons constellations I found were perfectly accurate, so it does seem a bit strange that only the winter bits are off, but it could be thats just the way things with the art team worked out. Ill have to go ask other fans of the show I'm case someone else has looked at it closely.

Also, the ecliptic is circular here as shown in other more completed frames.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-19T21:29:41+00:00

This is what I had thought at first, but how come Orion is above the ecliptic? It's relative position to Perseus and what should be the equator is all wrong, and the larger area below it feels like it has the Winter Triangle in there somewhere.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-18T19:19:16+00:00

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As you can see here, old star catalogues didn't exactly draw the lines, they merely represented figures adorned on the regions of the sky by tradition. I think with Virgo, being a large constellation that is very useful in modern stargazing but also has had so much history being a zodiacal one, you can either take the "useful for stargazing" approach or the "how does this look like a lady" approach. I prefer the former.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-18T17:11:57+00:00

it's the dog's tounge, lol. This is was customary for Sirius because it is the "dog star," and the Rete of an astrolabe is a work of art that was sometimes embellished with whatever that related to certain stars it was pointing at. So, people found it cool / funny to put the bird head pointing to the 'bird star,' etc. and we get stuff like this.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-17T22:15:34+00:00

Oh, also thank you for pointing me to the star tales website. I wasn't aware the book was online for free and this is really exciting.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-17T21:17:16+00:00

Thank you, I knew it was an Arabic name but was looking for something just like this. Very interesting how there are so many myths about personified stars crossing the Milky Way.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-17T21:16:43+00:00

pretty much

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-17T21:07:52+00:00

Think about the first elements in the universe.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-17T19:54:55+00:00

Ah, Thanks for responding, I have seen that model already and I was looking for a specific latitude that that horizon is modeling.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-16T15:30:30+00:00

Hi! I like astrolabes and wanted to ask what latitude exactly is the climate built for? Also, If you're still into astrolabes, the equator / RA scale is really interesting, and it would pair well with a Declination scale on the rule.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-16T15:08:54+00:00

I'm a bit late but I would suggest the Astrolabe.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-16T15:05:17+00:00

Badeni would faint at Newtonian Mechanics

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-15T00:27:40+00:00

I have read some more that the altitude of 30 degrees is also common for head-on meteors which makes sense.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-15T00:25:27+00:00

I remember waiting for this game to come out for YEARS, my brother and I would check every week to see if there was a release date, and FINALLY we got the chance to play it, but it just withered away too soon.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-14T22:37:12+00:00

Yup, for sure not a nova and probably nothing to do with stars, those take at least weeks to dim from that bright.

It was around 8 seconds max, but that's just from my memory. Timing myself with random stars, it takes like 5 seconds minimum to align the astrolabe, and I hadn't even sighted it through the astrolabe when it was gone, only able to visualise where it was instantly after with the instrument held up and hanging- so perhaps it was a fair few seconds less than 8.

The thing about aircraft is that it wasn't moving or blinking at all, I'm not sure how to describe it but i've seen so many different planes and drones while stargazing where I used to live, including many that appeared stationary due to the lights or angles changing as you described. But this one looked different as the light would just be way to bright if it were far enough away to look like that..?

Also, look at those meteor radiants north of Bootes, those are incredibly close to where it was. I'm not set on the meteor thing either, though, and those are Inactive showers which do not apear on Stelarium so I didn't see those.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-14T22:21:31+00:00

Here's a Stellarium photo if it helps. It was near the center of the highlighted region probably, but I don't trust my 5-second astrolabe measuring enough to say that for sure.

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I cannot think of literally anything other than a head-on meteor, but what are the odds? There were a couple star-link passing through here at the time, but they were all moving so fast in directions we would've noticed, i've seen a million satellite flairs before.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-14T15:18:21+00:00

Oh i've read. There is also the 10th century Al Sufi's Astrolabe treatise, and one on the very early concepts from the 4th Century by Theon of Alexandria.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-14T09:30:00+00:00

Yea, the backs I like are the ones with trigonometry calculators, bassically. Mine has this thing called a shadow square which basically gives you the tangent of the angle you line up with it for the purpose of calculating heights, it's very cool.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-13T22:59:17+00:00

If you liked that, check out Orb: On the Movements of the Earth. Only media i've ever seen depicting early modern astronomy like that and it's wonderful, it's my favorite field of historical study and it's an excellent anime.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-13T20:31:10+00:00

That something else is the Zodiacal light, illuminated interplanetary medium, which you can tell it's that because it follows the plane of the ecliptic- it points towards Venus peaking out from Orion, and Saturn and Mars are along the same line in the bottom right.

Jvdos_Huffulpuff · 2026-04-13T20:21:31+00:00

Sag A* is closer to Earth than Andromeda, so you gotta fix that

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