Outline
• Intro: science and tsunami survival?
• Observing the night sky from the Twin Cities
• Orientation: a guide to astronomical observation
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• "News"
• Discussion: astronomical alignments at the Big Horn Medicine Wheel
• Epilog: other medicine wheels; other early American astronomy
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• World Trade Center design

An Astronomical Map -- to guide local viewing of the planets:

• view of Twin Cities sky January 18, 2006, 8:50pm, looking south. Note the planet Mars high in the sky.
• looking east -- Note Saturn low near horizon, which will rise as evening progresses.

Guide to Astronomical Observation:
1. sunrise [ Howard Slavit ]
2. seasonal sunpaths [ Robert Pollock "Stones of Wonder" ]
3. seasonal sunpaths, again [ RCBrill ]
4. how seasonal sunpaths affect daylength
5. observed celestial pathways around Earth
6. Karnak Temple of Amon-Re, as presented in 1894
7. Karnak Temple, today
   
8. earth orbit relative to the sun
9. visible stars, relative to earth's position in orbit
10. imagining a celestial sphere [Brooks/Cole Publishing/ITP]
11. heliacal rising of Sirius -- note items below the horizon
12. heliacal rising of Sirius, another view
    

Astronomical Alignment of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel

1. Big Horn Medicine Wheel [ Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month, 1997 ]
2. panoramic view from the ground
3. view from above
4. sunrise [ Paula Giese ]
5. aerial photo
6. diagram of alignments [ adapted from John Eddy ]
7. panorama, again [ U.S. Forest Service ]
   
   Prospective Development [Allchin]
   
   Epilog
   
8. map of medicine wheel sites, including Moose Mountain (SW Saskatchewan) [ Dick Forbis (Univ. of Calgary) and Tom and Alice Kehoe (Univ. of Wisconsin) ]
9. second map [D. Barnett, Univ. of Saskatchewan ]
10. medicine wheel at Moose Mountain [ Tom & Alice Kehoe ]
11. medicine wheel from Alberta
12. other types of medicine wheels
13. more types of medicine wheels
    
    Other Astronomical Alignments and Observatories
    
14. Chaco Canyon, moonrise
15. Cahokia sun circle, Mississippi Valley [ Tom Sever, NASA ]
16. Mayan temple of Caracol, Chitchen Itza (Mayan)
17. Mayan records of Venus (Dresden Codex) [ Anthony Aveni ]
18. "Las Mojarra" stela #1 [ Terrence Kaufman, Univ. of Pittsburgh ]
19. large quadrant of Tycho Brahe
20. his observatory at Uranibourg
21. Hubble Telescope
22. European Southern Observatory, Paranel, Chile