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boueibu: beppu character song cover star map
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This looks to be a (slightly to moderately squished? or is it perspective?) star map of some of the classic Western constellations of the northern sky. For the most part, it’s a straight one-to-one map, centred on the North Star.
Specifically, you can see Gemini, the twins, hanging out just behind Haru, quite central. :D Also there is the source of the Perseid meteor shower, just between Perseus and Auriga, but I wouldn’t know anything about that. (cough)
Constellations in view, top to bottom. Many have particularly bright stars marked on the cover art:
#hmm I wonder if we can make out any of the constellations in the background ^^I AM HAPPY TO OBLIGE all my lying on rocks on the beach in the dark was not for nothing, cries
This looks to be a (slightly to moderately squished? or is it perspective?) star map of some of the classic Western constellations of the northern sky. For the most part, it’s a straight one-to-one map, centred on the North Star.
Specifically, you can see Gemini, the twins, hanging out just behind Haru, quite central. :D Also there is the source of the Perseid meteor shower, just between Perseus and Auriga, but I wouldn’t know anything about that. (cough)
Constellations in view, top to bottom. Many have particularly bright stars marked on the cover art:
- Columba, the dove.
- Canis Major, the great dog. Contains Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.
- Puppis, the poop deck? (Don’t laugh.) Possibly? TBH until today I had no idea this constellation even existed - apparently it was split off from Argo Navis, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts.
- Lepus, the hare.
- Orion, the hunter. Contains the bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.
- Eridanus, the river - possibly a corner of it?
- Taurus, the bull - just his legs sticking out.
- Gemini, the twins. (:D! - though note Castor and Pollux, the actual twin stars, are tucked behind Haru’s head)
- Auriga, the charioteer. Contains the bright multiple star Capella.
- Andromeda, the daughter of Cassiopeia. Might possibly also be part of Pegasus, the winged horse.
- Perseus, the Greek mythological hero who killed the Medusa
- Cassiopeia, the vain queen, mother of Andromeda.
- Cepheus, king of Aethiopia in Greek mythology. Married to Cassiopeia, father of Andromeda.
- Ursa Minor, the Little Bear. Contains Polaris, the North Star.
- Hercules, the Roman mythological hero.
- Corona Borealis, the Northern crown.
- Boötes, the herdsman. (possibly - it’s been pushed down a lot if it is.)
