solar and lunar eclipses

When the moon passes between the earth and the sun, we have a solar eclipse. When the earth is between the sun and the moon we have a lunar eclipse. There can be total and partial eclipses. These pictures are of total eclipses.

medicine wheels

Making a "medicine wheel", is easy. As the earth orbits the sun, the sun appears to swing from south to north and back south again over the course of a year. The southern most position marks the beginning of winter (winter soltice). The northern most position marks the begining of summer (summer solsitce). As the sun travels north, we come out of winter, when it is halway there, that is the begining of spring (spring equinox). After the sun reaches its northern most position, it turns around and heads south again. When it reaches the halfway point on its journey back south, that is the begining of fall (fall equinox). The four seasons, then, can be marked by these three positions of the sun. To make a medicine wheel, an old way of predicting the seasons, alighn two stones to point at these key positions of the sun, when it sets. The best way is not with compass and line, but simply to place the stones over the course of a year, when the sun is in each of these positions. The medicine wheel you see, was constructed at Pine Mountain Observatory, on the hill just above the telescopes.

Epsilon Aurigae (Pine Mountain Mentioned)

LookSmart's FindArticles - A 'brickbat' in the sky; the multiple star system Epsilon Aurigae fascinates astronomers every 27 years

Science News, March 9, 1985, by Dietrick E. Thomsen

Janov Pelorat was a cosmic archeologist in Foundation's Edge, and in Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov, searching for Earth. Humanity spread throughout the Galaxy, such an archeology could become very realistic. I have found the ratio 9/5 in the most humanly held sacred aspects of nature, gold, silver, sun, moon, water, air,... and in other things like the most massive planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, pointing to the earth where that ratio is concerned, and in the human body temperature. I am also showing Arthur C. Clarke to be tuned into something deeply meaningful. Back to cosmic archeology, here is my bit of cosmic archeology:

http://my.opera.com/eanbardsley/blog/index.dml/tag/tarot

Also this post has elements of cosmic archeology:

http://my.opera.com/eanbardsley/blog/index.dml/tag/monolith

My basis of cosmic archeology:

http://my.opera.com/eanbardsley/blog/index.dml/tag/enigma