Contrary to popular opinion: the old civilizations that named the stars didn’t name them after animals, but people.
This isn’t a animal representation of a goat. But in fact named after Steve Goat’s massive dong.
Source: me, a professional astro-dickologist
I know this may or may not be commonly known. But the lines or stick figures drawn with stars that we come to associate are just a tiny part of the constellation. Sometimes called asterism. The actual constellation is the entirety of all stars that fall between the region. So it’s more the cloud of stars inside the constellation. In the past it was a figure or silhouette. Modern constellations are squarish regions of sky. If you have a clear uncontaminated sky, the figures are still sorta visible to the naked eye.
Must have been a lot more easy to become familiar with when people weren’t living in light pollution 24/7.
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It’s funny you say that, I just acquired a Meade reflector telescope with computer-controlled motorized mount that belonged to my late grandfather and I’ve been meaning to drag it out into the country somewhere to see some stuff.
It’s honestly amazing. I had no idea the milky way was so visible.
I literally was wondering as I scrolled through the comments about how different the sky could have looked when constellations were named and maybe thats why they don’t make as much sense now visually, and how it’s weird I never thought about or considered it before. Then bam. Your comment.
astrologers?
Yes. The Greeks are literally why you have to pretend to respect people that talk about Pisces in ascendency or whatever, and their astrologers were their astronomers, they recognized the difference between observation and divination but used the terms interchangeably nonetheless.
There are some famous examples who doubtless thought the mysticism was nonsense, but it was what paid the bills so they told their patrons what they wanted to hear and then went back to their math and charts.
It’s older than the Greeks. The astrologers in Mesopotamia already collected historic events as a source for predictions
The Greeks mostly copied that. If they created it, they wouldn’t have used this ‘goat’ as the first constellation of the year that started with the spring equinox.
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Do Cassiopeia now. Literally boobies.
This post is worthless without a picture of them boobies.
It’s just a giant W. https://images.app.goo.gl/tB4eDwzj2K6ra21t7
That’s so fucking hot.
No it’s HD Bobs. Tomb raider style.
Whoa whoa whoa, WTF dude. Put a NSFW tag on this. Some people have jobs and can get fired for this.
✅ Featherless ❌ Biped
Well it’s not a man, could be a goat
Lmao ‘astrologers’
Logging the sky since forever, OP is such a doofus for reposting this 🤭
Wait….🧐
Wait for what, a princess to show up? 🤔
In the ancient world there was no difference between astrologer and astronomer.
They be astrologging and we couldn’t stop them cutting those astrotree!
Mallrat to “Astrologers”:
Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It’s not a (goat)… it’s a Sailboat.
A goat is a sailboat!
Big dipper is the only one that makes sense.
Really? Ursa major, the big bear?
The swan at least resembles a stick-figure bird.
The Big Dipper != Ursa Major. It’s part of Ursa Major (the butt and tail). And it does look like a dipper (ladle)
Orion isn’t bad, with his belt and “sword”.
Except the dangling thing under his belt is definitely… not part of his belt.
