"THE FIELD GUIDE TO ASTROCARTOGRAPHY"
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This is my 55 page guide filled with the most useful and
important information for interpreting your Astro-Carto-Graphy
Maps and is very user friendly. It comes with my 52 minute CD:
"The Companion CD To The Field Guide", which leads you
through the guide with helpful tips on understanding the
concepts of Astro-Carto-Graphy. This "Guide" covers the
differences between "Mundane Maps" and "Local Space Maps".
It gives a description of what the potentials are for every
"Planetary Area of Influence". It includes sections on how to
interpret and understand "Intersections and Parans" and
explains the differences between "The Mid-Heaven", "The
Nadir Line", "The Ascendant", and "The Descendant".
It's a great reference tool for interpreting your "Maps".
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A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This photo, taken by the Hubble Space
Telescope, is a remnant of SN 1006, a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1000 years
ago. On or around May 1st, 1006 A.D., observers from Africa to Europe to the Far East
witnessed and recorded the arrival of light from a supernova explosion caused by the final
death throes of a white dwarf star nearly 7,000 light years away, and surpassed Venus as
the brightest object in the night time sky, only to be surpassed by the moon. It was visible
even during the day for weeks, and remained visible to the naked eye for at least 2.5 years
before fading away. The size of the remnant implied that the blast wave from the supernova
had expanded at nearly 20 million miles per hour over the nearly 1000 years since the
explosion occurred. The twisting filament ribbon of light shows where the expanding blast
wave is now sweeping into very tenuous surrounding gas. The bright edges within the
ribbon correspond to places where the shock wave is seen exactly edge on to our line of
sight. SN 1006 has a diameter of nearly 60 light years, and is still expanding at roughly 6
million miles per hour. In this image, many background galaxies (orange extended objects)
far off in the distant universe can be seen dotting the image. The white dots are foreground
or background stars in our galaxy.
One light-year = traveling @ 186,000 miles per second,
x 60 seconds per minute, x 60 minutes per hour,
x 24 hours in one day, x 365 days per year!
Multiplied By 7,000 To Reach Remnant SN 1006!
To walk 1 light-year, at a moderate pace of 20 minutes a mile, it would take you 225 million
years to complete your journey, (not including stops for meals or the restroom). If you
started just before dinosaurs appeared on Earth, you'd probably be finishing your hike just
about now. Even if you hitched a ride on N.A.S.A.'s Mach 9.68x- 43A Hypersonic Scram Jet,
the fastest aircraft in the world, it would take about 95,000 years to cover the distance.
You'll need a pretty big travel bag too; for walking such a distance requires substantial
supplies. You'd need 2 trillion Power Bars to fuel your trip. You'd also produce a heap of
worn-out shoes. The typical pair of sneakers will last you 500 miles, so you'd burn through
some 11.8 billion pairs of shoes; and all that effort wouldn't get you very far, astronomically
speaking, because the closest star to our Sun, is Proxima Centauri which is 4.22 light-years
away!
HERE'S A PICTURE OF WHAT YOU GET:
ACTUAL SIZE OF GUIDE: 8.5" X 5.5"
"The Field Guide To Astrocartography":
"The Companion CD To The Field Guide"
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