Monday, April 13, 2015

The Location of the Next Great Google Earth Image Mystery for Archaeology, Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy Buffs : Andromeda and Pisces Between the Horns of Aries and Triangulum at the North Corner of Nazca

We recently posted the "Next" Great Google Earth Image Mystery for Archaeology, Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy Buffs -- but to save interested persons a lot of unnecessary work -- with you having virtually no chance of finding the image -- we post here parts of the solution, because that image has eluded hundreds if not thousands of Nazca Lines researchers, and it is "right under their noses", also the noses of the ancients, veritably.

The mystery image is at Nazca. 

It is on the perimeter of the Nazca Lines. All those people looking for the solution to the Nazca Lines in those lines would have found the solution in the perimeter, outside of the lines.

Here is the GPS of the Next Great Google Earth Image Mystery Image at Nazca where it marks Andromeda and Pisces between the horns of Aries and Triangulum, whose stars are marked at Nazca at
latitude 14°39'5.29"S and longitude  75°14'17.89"W.

The precise star location you can find further below using Fourmilab's Aim Point at the Virtual Telescope Control Panel.

To add a Nazca Lines .kmz to your Google Earth software enter Nazca Lines - ナスカの地上絵 in Google Search where you will find the download link.

The hummingbird that led to us to all this is right under Alpha Pegasi, with 5 stars at the tail and 2 to each wing. It is located at
GPS latitude 14°41'37.02"S and longitude 75°15'47.90"W.


After we got there, we looked for the Pleiades.

The Pleiades at Nazca are located at GPS latitude  14°39'26.54"S and longitude 75°14'34.28"W. The Pleiades are marked again, surely in another era, nearby at the upper left of those markings.

Rho Arietis at the Vernal Equinox ca. 1359 B.C. is marked at
latitude 14°39'23.74"S  and longitude 75°14'13.33"W.


And then, the mystery image followed....

Below is the mystery image upon which we have overlaid the corresponding stars of Andromeda and Pisces via Starry Night Pro, http://astronomy.starrynight.com/. Click the image to see it in larger format. Some of the star positions are exact, some are somewhat removed to the right, left, up or down, as the case may be, perhaps this also to do with airborne camera angles and photography image collation. A good example are the stars that form either the lips of the inner figure and/or the beak of the bird at the lower right. It is very close anyway. The stars are a bit to the left and a bit higher than that image part but there is no real doubt about the image and stellar correspondence.



As we wrote previously, go to
www.Fourmilab.ch, Your Sky: Virtual Telescope Control Panel, Aim Point (the site developer, John Walker, a genius in his own right, is the founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD.) Even if you do not own an astronomy software program, you can use Aim Point .... Just fill in this data at the Virtual Telescope Control Panel and check the following check marks:

Universal Time -750-12-09 23:30:00
Julian Day1447463.47917
Right Ascension 22h 30m
Declination 9°14'30"
Field of view 45°
Check mark click on Ecliptic and equator
Check mark click on Constellations outlines and names
Stars brighter than magnitude 8.0
Bayer/Flamsteed codes for mag. 5.0 and brighter
Image size 1024 pixels
Font scale 1.0
Colour scheme Black on white background
No other check marks.

There you have it.

THIS POSTING IS Posting Number 59 of
The Great Mound, Petroglyph and Painted Rock Art Journey of Native America


The Location of the Next Great Google Earth Image Mystery for Archaeology, Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy Buffs : Andromeda and Pisces Between the Horns of Aries and Triangulum at the North Corner of Nazca

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