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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2024 Oct 23, 15:23 -0700
The spacecraft "Endeavour" undocked an hour ago from the International Space Station, and four astronauts are on their way back to sea level. Spaceflightnow is illustrating their article with an image --see below-- that shows some familiar stars in the background. And how many official (Nautical Almanac "official") navigation stars can you identify in the image? To give you a goal, I count five of them in this relatively small field of view. Now for extra credit: how many stars of "Endurance" can you see behind "Endeavour" in this image? I'm referring to the stars that were observed being occulted by the Moon in 1915 by Frank Worsley and Reginald James from the ice floes by the doomed Endurance. A hint here: one is today known officially in IAU lists as "Alniyat". There's at least one more visible in frame, and if you're up for the game there are a couple more 'sort of' in frame but hidden.
Frank Reed
