No physics?!? But, that's what the universe is all about...
Oh well, since I can't ask an easy question about PopI stars, or evolutionary sequence, or simple Schwartzschild's radius calculations, how about this for the observers among us...
One of my daughter's favorite Constellations was mentioned in the 1st Book of Samuel - a 3 chord musical instrument - but other translations believed it was a drinking cup containing a third of a pint, the Latin triental or Hebrew ephah. Going back to the ancient Greek, it is often spelled as delta-epsilon-lambda-tau-omega-tau-omicron-nu, and the name transformed somewhat remains the same today. It arises in tales as representing the land of Sicily where the pastures of Helios were rumored to lie - when Odysseus's men slaughtered and ate the cows, they brought on Zeus's wrath, with only Odysseus surviving to eventually return home to Ithaca. South of gamma Andromeda on the edge of the Milky Way, this faint constellation's alpha star is yellow, 3.6 magnitude, beta is 4.1 magnitude - together they form the Arabic apex of measures. Alpha, though lesser in magnitude to beta, is deservedly the first star for it's "peak" position.
I've tried to make it more a "thinking" puzzle than a google puzzle, with plenty of hints. Please try it without using search engines - it's more fun that way, and even a child can solve it...
Regards,
Lynne.
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> Behalf Of Mark Wagner
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 1:38 PM
> To: tac
> Subject: [TAC] Re: Rainy Day Astro Quiz
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> Tom Campbell wrote...
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> >I would assume you are talking about the galaxy in Sextans
> because of the
> >abbreviated name (Sex).
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> Well, Tom.... it appears you have some of the same reference sources I do!
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> As today's winner, you are entitled the cheezy prize of a night of
> observing under the clear skies of... let's see now, where are the clear?
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> Oh.... yeah.... Kansas!
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> Enjoy.
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> Richard... second prize is, we share a Fosters up at SSP later
> this year ;-)
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> Anyone else care to post an astro-quiz? Gotta be tougher than mine (but
> please, no physics).
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> Mark
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