Mapping the Heavens, Mapping Time
Guide || Mapping the Heavens, Part II || Hub 

    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
    Some Astronomical Maps -- to guide local viewing of the planets:
  13. view of Twin Cities sky January 24, 2001, 8:50pm, looking southeast.
  14. Thursday, looking southwest

    Intro
    Cellarius, Harmonia macrocosmica (1708)
    Hubble telescope
    European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile [ESO]
    mapping Mars

      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

      What claims does Eddy make about the purpose of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel? What evidence does he give to support his claims?

    4. sunrise [ Paula Giese ]
    5. aerial photo
    6. diagram of alignments [ adapted from John Eddy ]
      helical risings and their precession [Eddy, 1974, Fig. 8]
    7. panorama, again [ U.S. Forest Service ]

      Prospective Development [Allchin]

    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

    Return to HSCI 1814