Night Sky
Poets, common people, children and adults alike, we all wonder at the beauty of the night sky once in a while. There is a historical, cultural and religious meaning to the picture mankind has created about the night sky throughout thousands of years of history. Most ancient cultures devoted a great attention to the study of the sky map and organized their lives and activities respecting the cult of the asters: cults of the sun, ritual astronomic sites, calenders and even legends and myths gravitate around constellations, stars and other celestial bodies. And all these start from the premises that Earth is a unitary element in the harmony of the universe. Modern man is no longer paying that much attention to the night sky.
Presently we have other means to study the night sky and different purposes in mind: we are looking for scientific evidence to explain UFO events and life on other planets speculations, we watch major cosmic events with the help of huge telescopes that get an insight of the inner life of the galaxy or we simply feel fascinated by the beauty of the high spheres. Depending on the time of the year when one watches the night sky, different constellations are visible as the Earth orbits around the sun. Many things have been discovered in time, and plenty are waiting hidden ever since the Greeks gave the first name to the constellations.
Given the present condition of our atmosphere, the night sky vision is often blurred because of pollution. One thing is for sure, a large metropolis with lots of industrial activity and plenty of cars running permanently make a lousy astronomy observation spot. Many people claim to have seen the most beautiful of night sky panoramas in the mountains, where the altitude increases panorama viewing because of the rarer atmosphere. The purer the air, the higher the visibility of the night sky. For people who have astronomy as a hobby, the study of the constellations with the help of various softwares and private telescopes is really fun.
One other dimension of the sky night study is the creation of the personal horoscope and the study of the zodiac signs. Every sign of the zodiac has an afferent constellation, and the study of the sun and earth moves as well as the position of the planets and the stars in the night sky influence the zodiac. This is actually the astrological explanation for the resemblances that exist between people belonging to the same zodiac signs. All in all, we have never stopped keeping the eyes focused on the universe, as the interdependence is sometimes more than obvious.
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