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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: 2025 May 24, 11:13 -0700
This week in pop culture, there's a new season of an animated anthology with an episode set in the 1750s in Britain. It seems that Satan is trying to persuade a cat to work against his master. Satan convinced the cat to step "outside" in a sort of dreamscape with an animated simulacrum of the night by offering him treats (including fish heads, hence the floating oddities in the second image). And in this fanciful night sky, there are constellations sketched out with some connecting lines --which are, by the way, completely anachronistic for the 1750s!
I can see at least one of the official navigation stars. There are several just off-screen. Can you identify three constellations from their skeletal connecting lines?
Real trivia: what's the story in this animated tale? And what is the show? It's possible a few of you have seen it... Of note, the voice of the cat's master, floating in ths animation, is performed by a well-known British actor who turned 76 today, May 24. That should lead you to it.
Frank Reed
