Thanks again for all this, Ithilwen. I've settled on Cygnus, as I thought this would be a good way for the Prince of Dol Amroth to tell his grandson the story of Amroth and Nimrodel, and of Mithrellas. So I guess the lesson in the story would be teaching the child how the history he learns is not just abstract, but is directly related to his heritage in some way. I have yet to think this through so this might all be a bit garbled as yet...
But thanks to you I think I have another two stories that I could happily tell! There's a more maritime one about Polaris. Also, I saw that Soronume would be in the northern sky, and I like the idea of a story about an Eagle of the Star that's associated with the North...
Thank you again for all your help. Now all I have to do is work out what 'precession of the equinoxes' means and I'll feel like I've made a massive leap in my understanding of the universe *g*
Light pollution... I've always lived in very polluted, urban areas (the town I used to live in outside London (Reading, it's just south of Oxford) is in the Thames Valley, and is so urbanized and light polluted that we would get the dawn chorus all night). When I went to the South Island of NZ, it was just amazing... I didn't know the sky and the stars could be so clear.
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Date: 2003-05-13 03:40 am (UTC)But thanks to you I think I have another two stories that I could happily tell! There's a more maritime one about Polaris. Also, I saw that Soronume would be in the northern sky, and I like the idea of a story about an Eagle of the Star that's associated with the North...
Thank you again for all your help. Now all I have to do is work out what 'precession of the equinoxes' means and I'll feel like I've made a massive leap in my understanding of the universe *g*
Light pollution... I've always lived in very polluted, urban areas (the town I used to live in outside London (Reading, it's just south of Oxford) is in the Thames Valley, and is so urbanized and light polluted that we would get the dawn chorus all night). When I went to the South Island of NZ, it was just amazing... I didn't know the sky and the stars could be so clear.