The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 28, 1994 Page: 3 of 24
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Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, December 28, 1994
The Mercedes Enterprise -- Page 3
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PEGASUS
Deneb
Enif
CYGNUS
Saturn
AQUARIUS
Vega
Altair
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AQUILA
CAPRICORNUS
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‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be
comforted” - St. Matthew 5:4
One youngster, in fact, Rebecca Mascorro,
learned hands-on about photography, when
she got to use The Enterprise camera to take
the photo above. Shown are the students in
the classes of Mrs. Irene Garcia and Mrs. Mari
Fiores who took part, along with Mr. Hinds
and Mrs. Garcia, at back left. (Enterprise
Photo by Rebecca Mascorro.)
zenith mid-way to the southern hori-
zon.
Pegasus’ Great Square hung over-
head like a panoply, and for once I
could join the dots and imagine the
winged horse of the Muses. His great
head was a triangle of stars while his
tail flowed behind him to the wind.
Truth is, the ancients called the stars in
which I saw a tail, “Andromeda,” prin-
cess of Ethiopia. In that moment,
though, the princess became the exult-
ant train of a flying horse.
Below his forequarter, a shock.
What is that yellowish star? I don’t
remember any star there. Then I re-
member, with an embarrassed smile to
myself in the darkness, that Saturn is
in Aquarius, directly under Pegasus’
strong body. .
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The students viewed page “paste ups” and
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east by midnight.
JUPITER rises about half an hour
before Venus, so is a little higher and
to the right of brighter Venus at dawn.
Look for reddish Antares below Jupi-
ter.
SATURN, in Aquarius, sets a
couple of hours after the sun, so it’s
readily found low in the west in the
early evening.
THE MOON is new on the 1st and
the 30th, and full on the 16th of Janu-
ary.
Sleeping Bag Astronomy
When I woke at around 3 a.m., the
first thing I was aware of was Louisa’s
head on my shoulder. My wife moaned
softly as I shifted to pull my glasses
out of the tent pocket.
I knew the time because directly
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Off to my right, the summer tri-
angle spread across the dome of the
southwestern sky. The summer tri-
angle isn’t a constellation, at least one
recognized by astronomers ancient or
modern. Perhaps the Babylonians
thought it too big for a constellation,
or too complicated.
Each of its three major stars, Verti-
ces of the triangle, is the brightest —
or the alpha — star for individual con-
stellations. Towards the western hori-
zon, Altair marked the eye of Aquila
the Eagle. Higher up, Vega, sixth
brightest star and chief star of the Lyre
constellation, burnt blue-white.
But it was Deneb, third member of
the triangle, in the tail feathers of Cyg-
nus the starry swan, that captured my
attention. The sun swings in a wide
orbit around the core of our galaxy,
and Deneb marks the direction in which
we’re headed. Each second our home
star and its entourage of captive plan-
ets moves 150 miles — the distance of
New York to Boston — towards
Deneb. Even at this unsettling veloc-
ity, it takes our solar system one quar-
ter of a million years to make a full
revolution around the core of the Milky
Way.
Twelve revolutions ago, “Lucy”
walked the hills of Andromeda’s Ethio-
pia. Three revolutions ago, our ances-
tors mastered fire.
I lay there, vainly trying to com-
pare Louisa’s rhythmic once-a-second
breathing with the ponderous quarter-
million year revolution of this great
starry clock.
As I rushed towards Vega, I felt at
one with the heavens, remembering
my favorite astronomy quote, not from
a scientist but from an English novel-
ist, John Fowles.
He wrote, in The Collector: “...like
lying on one’s back as we did in Spain
when we slept out looking up between
the fig-branches into the star-corri-
dors, the great seas and oceans of stars.
Knowing what it was to be in the
universe.”
I lay there, in the universe.
Celestial Events, January 1995 overhead, showering me with two-
The “Winter Hexagon” is in the million-year-old photons, was the
southeastern skies these chilly Janu- Andromeda galaxy.
ary evenings. Normally I have to use the trick of
Although not an official constella- averted vision—looking slightly away
tion, the hexagon is one of the best to register very dim objects — to see
ways to find your way around the Andromeda, but here, two miles high
winter sky. To locate it during the in the dry Sierra air, it was just there,
evening, start off with the well known afaint glowing oval halo of400 billion
star Sirius, brightest star in the night suns, the most distant object discern-
sky. It’s the blue-white one to the ible to the naked eye.
lower left of Orion. We were camped high in
Head up and slightly to the left to California’s Emigrant Wilderness,
Pollux,oneof the heavenly twins (Cas- north of Yosemite National Park, per-
tor, his brother, is higher and slightly haps the only two souls for five miles
dimmer), then straight up to Capella, around. Our campsite consisted of a
brighest star of Auriga the Charioteer, tiny deck of sand in an otherwise unre-
Now come right and slightly down lenting terrain of rock.
to the red eye of Taurus the Bull — But what rock! Frozen oceans of
that s Aldebaran. Orion’s left foot, granite, hardened to stone soon after
blue-white Rigel completes the sextet, oozing from the Earth’s interior mil-
Once you ve got all six firmly in lennia ago, had been eroded by water
your mind, you can use the Winter and ice into gentle slopes and harsh
Hexagon and a star atlas to lead you to crags. In this landscape, where only
a more detailed view of the winter sky. the occasional spruce andjuniper make
MERCURY is visible early in the a tenuous living, granite rules. My
month, setting very soon after the sun favorite rock — sturdy, full of friction
in the southwest. —is a delight to hiked upon. I’ve been
VENUS rises about three hours too long in the sedimentary lowlands,
before the sun and is high and bright in I thought.
the southeast at dawn. The entrance of our tiny tent slopes
MARS, in Leo, rises in the east at 45 degrees, so without moving or
around 9p.m. and is high in the south- waking Louisa, I could see from the
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 28, 1994, newspaper, December 28, 1994; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1618544/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.