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    Re: Latitude of a Weird Monument
    From: Frank Reed
    Date: 2023 Feb 6, 06:55 -0800

    Antoine, thanks for looking at this one. Yes, the goat star and the kids caught my attention right away, too.

    For those who haven't thought about the weirdness of the constellations recently, Capella is the brightest star in the constellation Auriga who is generally considered a "charioteer" or "wagoneer". But this bright star is "the goat" (which in the modern meme-y world could imply in the 21st century that this wagon driver is the "greatest of all time"), but no apparently, just a plain old goat. And the goat is accompanied by two baby goats or "kids". For some reason the charioteer has pets: a mama goat and two kids. And this goes back a while! The kids are in Ptolemy's Almagest. Why pet goats?? This is probably a case of two separate "cultures" of sky lore merged together, but as far as I know, there's nothing more than speculation available.

    Antoine, you wrote: "Looks like splendid and pretty unusual Northern Lights"

    Maybe. But I suspect it's just local light pollution.

    Frank Reed

       
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