The awakening of astronomy, this week in astronomy with Dave Eicher.

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The awakening of astronomy, this week in astronomy with Dave Eicher.

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Some interesting astronomy history.
Learned something new again today.
Thanks to Dave and astronomy magazine for the article.

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And, of course, they glorify the article with an obvious composite image of Orion that CANNOT be seen without Scope and Camera and Ha Filter. Yet they loosely imply that this is what our early ancestors could have seen from Africa or the Middle East.
This type of "Hype Journalism" is why I dropped my Astronomy magazine subscription.
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