Hey Seekers - A previous edit of this episode had an error of showing an Aztec calendar when talking about Mayan astronomy. We have since made a change to remove that error and we apologize for not catching that before publish. Thank all of you for flagging it with us and keeping us honest.
Can you edit to fix the solar system @ 2:03 onward? Planets are orbiting in the wrong direction and at the wrong relative speeds (e.g. looks like Saturn is travelling faster than Jupiter). I get that it's an orrery, so I'm not bothered by the distances/sizes.
Use the moon and or sun trail (zodiac -- i.e "animal trial") in your locale; that would be towards the south in the N hemi (e.g out of your back door after dinner). Everything "barrels" overhead from east (rising sun) to west. "Light pollution" makes this difficult in some ways BUT easier in others (fewer stars to overwhelm you). Very local trees too can box you in. When you see a bright star on that trail that DOESN'T twinkle, that's a planet. Use the net to or an astronomy prog (stellarium celestia) to investigate what it was. Learn more as the zodiac constellations (and their neighbors) rise in the east in your locale seasonally (e.g out of your back door after dinner).
Mostly imagination, but the original symbol has changed depending on the civilization that was using it. The "Ram" was once the "Farmer"(probably complete with a farming tool).😅 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac
Great topic! Idea: 12 mini series on each of the constellations, how to find them with just your eyes, and each of their more in depth relevance to science
The Signs of the Zodiac are entirely different from the Constellations that lie on the ecliptic. The 12 Signs are 30° slices of the ecliptic starting from the Vernal Equinox Point (where the ecliptic and the celestial equator meet). This Ecliptic Coordinate System was established some two thousand years ago by Ptolemy in Alexandria and is still used today. The Signs were named after the constellations as a legacy from the past. However, it was known at the time of inception that the Signs of the Zodiac (which corresponded with the Earth’s seasons) would gradually move out of alignment with the Constellations due to the precession of the Equinox. So, the Signs of the Zodiac are a mathematical construct. The position, shape, distance and size of the Constellations that lie on the ecliptic including Ophiuchus are not relevant to the Signs of the Zodiac.
You can see the winter Hexagon asterism comprising of brightest stars from 6 constellations(Canis Major, Orion, Canis minor, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini) which are Sirius, Rigel, procyon, Aldeberan, Capella, Pollux
Definitely will be sharing this with my friends and family who don't know a lot about astronomy! Super proud of you, Sarafina! Looking forward to more videos with you in them!
Would have been nice to get more details about how many days the sun spends in each zodiac, as well as how these numbers have changed between the time the zodiac was created and today.
Hey, thanks for information and knowledge sharing. Astronomy holds true hope in these dismal times. I understand a disciplined approach is most requisite.
Perhaps to us today, a constellation doesn't look like what someone 4000 years ago thought, our imaginations may not be less than that farmer back then, but we imagine at a different level. We have learned so much since then, and it all started with OBSERVING the world and sky around us, day and night.
Farmers knows the environment and natural science better than anyone,, they are always connected to her in some form or other .physically ,mentally ,spiritually. I think they create life from what they have by working according to nature and give it to someone who doesn't even know how he is able to have it because money is easy to get than a food .
We don’t know. Because of how far away they are, we’re seeing them as they were in the past, so it’s possible that some of them have disappeared recently enough for us to have no way of knowing they did.
Most athletes are disproportionally+ spring births in N hemi; many famous science talking heads are too. Fact. +Autumn birth is most common (winter holiday conception).
Interesting the last bit about the sun spending 18 days in Ophiuchus the serpent bearer...the 13th zodiac. Id like to see more on solstice alignments and ancient structures or zodiac signs & constellation alignments on the ecliptic.
At around 1:20 you talked about the infamous Mayan calendar but the video shows the Aztec Sun Stone. Aztecs and Mayans were civilization separated by both time and space, and although we know that Mayans influenced Aztecs and many others Mesoamerican civilizations I think this error should have been caught by such a professional team.
I love the beauty of the astrology, calendars, and naked eye astronomy. Whatever gets you to look up at the sky is great in my universe. Unfortunately, most astrologers don't look up. Nor do many astrophysisists, for that matter.
We only observe the universe one moment at a time. But what if the actual size of the universe is the sum of it's size at every moment from beginning to end? The universe that exists now is not the same universe that existed a second ago. Like a stack of photos we only see one at a time but the whole stack makes a movie. Maybe our experience of time is us moving between universes? Upon further consideration in this framework you wouldn't necessarily need a third dimension of space it would arise as a consequence of moving through a multiverse.
One the first asterisms I was taught to find with binoculars was the "coat hanger". A future topic might be interesting things you can see with binoculars
The necessity of having zodiac patterns in the sky allows us to communicate over a wide distance of time and space the location of stars and how they have moved through the sky over over the millennia. Constellations and having an intimate knowledge of their movement through the sky throughout the year facilitated not only Marine navigation it also aided in terrestrial navigation when geographical renderings were either incomplete or nonexistant.
Nice video! So these constellations are only seen from our Solar system, that means we couldn't use it to navigate if we were travelling to other stars - but what should we use then?
Yes - like the other comments, I can understand seeing the swan in cygnus, for example, but 3 or 4 stars in a line making a goat or ram, they must have been on the mescaline or something in those days lol.
You are quite wrong about that BECAUSE "ram" means "Aries" in Latin and Aries♈ sign is associated with "Sheep"🐏 symbol and whereas "goat"🐐 is associated with "Capricorn"♑ symbol SO,before you say such nonsense the next time to sound cool do some REAL research,GOOGLE IS FREE!!!!
Can you talk about Chinese constellations? Are they still used in astronomy? Can you talk about tribal constellations like those used by the Native Americans or the Aboriginal Australians?
I wonder how Seeker will read 200(as of writing this) comments and find those comments which are suggestions for the next video? That must be hard work. And this can be compared to finding constellations.
What you fail to address is the Zodiacs are viewed from Earth as two-dimensional structures. Taking into account the massive distance differences between any one star relative to the others, the patterns are rendered nonsensical...think in 3D!
My favorite constellation is cygnus. It is so beautifully lined up with the milky way and I'm curious as to what the nebula is that looks so similar to libra.
0:35 they do determine our personalities and here is why. because people believe in them, when people believes in horoscope they think and act accordingly to their believes, just like religions. therefor more people believe in horoscope more accurate it is.
Astrologers do not assume the zodiac is regular. We make it regular so that it works for timekeeping purposes. Also, we're available for interviews as a rule.
Star gazing here in Southern Minnesota is horrible. The only constellations I can see with any real clarity are Orion and Sirius. Even with my small amateur telescope, I could barely see the comet that passed by last year.
hello.. can I invite you guys as a guest speaker via zoom meeting for my grade 9 students? we are currently on the topic of stars and constellations and astronomy vs. astrology... thank you
Cnstellations tells us our position in the solar system. So based on the constellations,how do I know which position I am in the solar system. Like if I see Orion, that means I'm in one particular position in the system. What is that position is that ?
Very enjoyable, thank you. I had a question you may know the answer. A friend told me that present day astrology bases it's signs on the location of the stars 2,000 years ago. And according to the present location of the stars, I'm not an Aries but a Pisces . Is that true?
According to Indian Callender, all constellations have equal importance and same time gap Also ancient Indians have measured and recorded astronomy correctly for thousands of years
Hey Seekers - A previous edit of this episode had an error of showing an Aztec calendar when talking about Mayan astronomy. We have since made a change to remove that error and we apologize for not catching that before publish. Thank all of you for flagging it with us and keeping us honest.
Great episode! However there is a typo at the end - it says “Januarary” or something like that in the calendar.
Cover up, dark matter of the universe which is approximately 85% of it.
@@openskiesmedia Impressive eagle eyes! Great catch!
@Cosmo Genesis aren’t we all?
Can you edit to fix the solar system @ 2:03 onward? Planets are orbiting in the wrong direction and at the wrong relative speeds (e.g. looks like Saturn is travelling faster than Jupiter). I get that it's an orrery, so I'm not bothered by the distances/sizes.
This is actually a very nice topic. Please do an episode on how to find and identify the zodiacs during the night only with your eyes.
Yeah i was also thinking the same
how about not
It isn’t the same at all latitudes.
Yes please
Use the moon and or sun trail (zodiac -- i.e "animal trial") in your locale; that would be towards the south in the N hemi (e.g out of your back door after dinner).
Everything "barrels" overhead from east (rising sun) to west.
"Light pollution" makes this difficult in some ways BUT easier in others (fewer stars to overwhelm you). Very local trees too can box you in.
When you see a bright star on that trail that DOESN'T twinkle, that's a planet. Use the net to or an astronomy prog (stellarium celestia) to investigate what it was.
Learn more as the zodiac constellations (and their neighbors) rise in the east in your locale seasonally (e.g out of your back door after dinner).
I'm just confused on how they find a whole animal in 3 dots, or 4 lines in a million of them
Those animals are shapeshifters. That is why they had so many applications across history, from striking doors open, to volatile storage in computers.
🤣😂
No actually on average you can see about 2200 stars at night
Mostly imagination, but the original symbol has changed depending on the civilization that was using it. The "Ram" was once the "Farmer"(probably complete with a farming tool).😅
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac
Wine. Lots of wine.
No one:
Literally no one:
Ancient astronomers looking at 4 stars in a line: Ah yes! A goat.
Congratulations for 112 likes 😂❤️
@@vartikaotic Thank you so much 🥰😁
Mmmmbaaaah :D
Splitting of the moon also😂😂
Haha Sarafina looks so happy to be hosting and talking about astronomy, you love to see it.
All the seeker people are paid well
@@markshiman5690 how much
Great topic! Idea: 12 mini series on each of the constellations, how to find them with just your eyes, and each of their more in depth relevance to science
yay!! i’m so excited for this series; go sarafina!!
The Signs of the Zodiac are entirely different from the Constellations that lie on the ecliptic. The 12 Signs are 30° slices of the ecliptic starting from the Vernal Equinox Point (where the ecliptic and the celestial equator meet). This Ecliptic Coordinate System was established some two thousand years ago by Ptolemy in Alexandria and is still used today. The Signs were named after the constellations as a legacy from the past. However, it was known at the time of inception that the Signs of the Zodiac (which corresponded with the Earth’s seasons) would gradually move out of alignment with the Constellations due to the precession of the Equinox. So, the Signs of the Zodiac are a mathematical construct. The position, shape, distance and size of the Constellations that lie on the ecliptic including Ophiuchus are not relevant to the Signs of the Zodiac.
I was obsessed with Orion from the day I started to observe, I would like a video about Orion facts from Seeker :)
Orion is super useful in finding other constellations too, especially because it's usually easy to find!
You can see the winter Hexagon asterism comprising of brightest stars from 6 constellations(Canis Major, Orion, Canis minor, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini) which are Sirius, Rigel, procyon, Aldeberan, Capella, Pollux
Doesn't that have both bellatrix and betelgeuse for stars in the constellation?
Hey, great job with the first episode!
Are you real
Folks supporting folks yay!
Love your seeker episodes Julian!
YESS Sarafina! Love this video
Sarafina this is great to get a nice basic understanding to start in astronomy. Just Superb
Thanks Sarafina. Glad to have here at Seeker. Looking forward for your videos.
1:12 someone explain to me how that is in the shape of a ram? Hmm
They aren't really the shapes of what they call them
I know it's stupid
It might be due to ancient beliefs about what animals represent to them...
Or it just might be the first thing that came to their mind😅
I've seen rams, can confirm they are lines and dots.
She said that because ancient people believed it to be so, it is really not
Small dog is even better.
Two Dots only.
Great episode! I would love to see more in this series ;)
Such an informative and beautiful video - excellent job Sarafina! 💜
Definitely will be sharing this with my friends and family who don't know a lot about astronomy! Super proud of you, Sarafina! Looking forward to more videos with you in them!
This video is possibly the best thing I've watched today/honestly this week!
Would have been nice to get more details about how many days the sun spends in each zodiac, as well as how these numbers have changed between the time the zodiac was created and today.
0:10
Flat Earthers: Heavy breatihing
😂😂😂 no this can be true
😅
@@accurategamer7085 ?
Earth is not flat
It's not spherical
*It's donut shaped*
@@Rahul-ur3jy herecy! It’s a T-Rex.
This was so cool. She is great at breakin it down.
Talk about Orion's belt, the Three 🤴's and the brightest 🌟.
3:39, that's some nifty GNC engineering, very impressive job on the part of the team.
Great video! Though I do wish you had explained WHY those constellations are along our orbital plane (or vice versa)
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A great beginning to this series! Please explain some of the planet movement terms such as occulting and conjunction.
Hey, thanks for information and knowledge sharing. Astronomy holds true hope in these dismal times. I understand a disciplined approach is most requisite.
Perhaps to us today, a constellation doesn't look like what someone 4000 years ago thought, our imaginations may not be less than that farmer back then, but we imagine at a different level. We have learned so much since then, and it all started with OBSERVING the world and sky around us, day and night.
Farmers knows the environment and natural science better than anyone,, they are always connected to her in some form or other .physically ,mentally ,spiritually. I think they create life from what they have by working according to nature and give it to someone who doesn't even know how he is able to have it because money is easy to get than a food .
Skies would have been clearer at thay time allowing them to see more stars and make out a more visible pattern than today
Q: How many "stars" have disappeared from the "Star Signs" since the first drawings?
none of them
Nothing disappeared
We don’t know. Because of how far away they are, we’re seeing them as they were in the past, so it’s possible that some of them have disappeared recently enough for us to have no way of knowing they did.
There are stars no longer visible largely due to light pollution
Just remember people your zodiac sign isn’t a personality trait.
Of course it is. It means dreamy and gullible.
Yes it is.
Depends on which one
Most athletes are disproportionally+ spring births in N hemi; many famous science talking heads are too. Fact.
+Autumn birth is most common (winter holiday conception).
Here’s Why Zodiac Constellations Are Still Used In The Future NASA Astronomy
Interesting the last bit about the sun spending 18 days in Ophiuchus the serpent bearer...the 13th zodiac.
Id like to see more on solstice alignments and ancient structures or zodiac signs & constellation alignments on the ecliptic.
New favorite series!!
Well done Serafina! What about doing a video on how they assigned the objects to the constellations? I can’t see a ram in Capricorn, for example.
The three constellations I'd like y'all to cover are Orion, Taurus, and Pleiades. Thanks for the great video 🤗
I'd love to see a video on how the heavier elements came into being.
At around 1:20 you talked about the infamous Mayan calendar but the video shows the Aztec Sun Stone. Aztecs and Mayans were civilization separated by both time and space, and although we know that Mayans influenced Aztecs and many others Mesoamerican civilizations I think this error should have been caught by such a professional team.
Great catch, Esteban. I am sorry we didn't catch it and appreciate our audience keeping us honest.
I love the beauty of the astrology, calendars, and naked eye astronomy. Whatever gets you to look up at the sky is great in my universe. Unfortunately, most astrologers don't look up. Nor do many astrophysisists, for that matter.
You are great ! Cover something about supernova in next one ?
Have the constellations changed over the centuries?
And if they have how they were 2k years ago?
The star's alignment against particular dates & calendars has changed, the stars themselves will look the same for a very long time.
Should talk about where are all the stars of the constellations are located relative to the milky way.
I saw a visualization on one of Anton Petrov's videos. Even with the distance between them, they are almost all in the spiral arm.
Nonetheless even though they are very far far away some of them. They are closer than we think.
Wow! Learning something new every day. Will have to look up more often. 🌜🌕🌛
We only observe the universe one moment at a time. But what if the actual size of the universe is the sum of it's size at every moment from beginning to end? The universe that exists now is not the same universe that existed a second ago. Like a stack of photos we only see one at a time but the whole stack makes a movie. Maybe our experience of time is us moving between universes?
Upon further consideration in this framework you wouldn't necessarily need a third dimension of space it would arise as a consequence of moving through a multiverse.
This was most informative and useful.
One the first asterisms I was taught to find with binoculars was the "coat hanger". A future topic might be interesting things you can see with binoculars
I'd never heard of that one before! Do you live in the Southern hemisphere?
How about a talk on Orion?
I want to know about 13 constellation
Use of constellation in maritime navigation/Importance of constellation to travelers
10/10 video!!!!
Make a video on supernova
The necessity of having zodiac patterns in the sky allows us to communicate over a wide distance of time and space the location of stars and how they have moved through the sky over over the millennia. Constellations and having an intimate knowledge of their movement through the sky throughout the year facilitated not only Marine navigation it also aided in terrestrial navigation when geographical renderings were either incomplete or nonexistant.
Thanks Seeker for bringing Sarafina, she is the best!
Welcome to the Seeker group
New member!! Woo Hoo !!!🥳
Excellent video, Serafina, I love the way you explain science in language everybody can understand.
This is such an amazing video! Very informative ✌️
Please talk about Orion. My favorite
It is already mentioned in Indian vedic period before Greek about relationship between 🌟 stars and earth.
Please give us more knowledge about big dipper , hunter, Lyra, leo and hydra constilation.
Nice video! So these constellations are only seen from our Solar system, that means we couldn't use it to navigate if we were travelling to other stars - but what should we use then?
Pulsars & Cepheid variable stars.
Although if you went too far from home, you wouldn't see the pulsars we can see from here.
Great timing! I was just talking to a friend the other day about how astrology is not science, despite her claims of EM fields affecting us...
EM fields do affect people🤔
@@kweisel In the sense of Jupiter affecting personality they don't.
Yes - like the other comments, I can understand seeing the swan in cygnus, for example, but 3 or 4 stars in a line making a goat or ram, they must have been on the mescaline or something in those days lol.
You are quite wrong about that BECAUSE "ram" means "Aries" in Latin and Aries♈ sign is associated with "Sheep"🐏 symbol and whereas "goat"🐐 is associated with "Capricorn"♑ symbol SO,before you say such nonsense the next time to sound cool do some REAL research,GOOGLE IS FREE!!!!
Nice job, Sarafina !
Surprised at what I can still learn. Great video!
Stupid question: the constellations are NOT visible during the day, so how do ancient astronomer knew that the sun was crossing them?
yes i'm interested
Can you talk about Chinese constellations? Are they still used in astronomy? Can you talk about tribal constellations like those used by the Native Americans or the Aboriginal Australians?
Austr (alians)
hey seeker, please make a video on astrobiology!
I wonder how Seeker will read 200(as of writing this) comments and find those comments which are suggestions for the next video? That must be hard work. And this can be compared to finding constellations.
You should cover light pollution!
Welcome to seeker! You seem a bit nervous in this video. I'm sure it'll get better.
I really enjoyed this. As a kid I read all I could abt astronomy. I wanted 2 b an astronaut. To this day, sky gazing is still in my top 3 things 2 do.
SARAFINA THIS IS AMAZING!!!! !
I'm like Whaa!!!...so awesome to know this Ecliptic Line!!
What you fail to address is the Zodiacs are viewed from Earth as two-dimensional structures. Taking into account the massive distance differences between any one star relative to the others, the patterns are rendered nonsensical...think in 3D!
Very interesting video. Thanks
I'm loving this!
My favorite constellation is cygnus. It is so beautifully lined up with the milky way and I'm curious as to what the nebula is that looks so similar to libra.
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I would love to know more about exoplanets :)
0:35 they do determine our personalities and here is why. because people believe in them, when people believes in horoscope they think and act accordingly to their believes, just like religions. therefor more people believe in horoscope more accurate it is.
Video next week..."The moon can alter our behavior at night, so can the zodiac"
Astrologers do not assume the zodiac is regular. We make it regular so that it works for timekeeping purposes. Also, we're available for interviews as a rule.
Fantastic! Thanks
I'm so into this!
do one about subaru and seven sisters
Star gazing here in Southern Minnesota is horrible. The only constellations I can see with any real clarity are Orion and Sirius.
Even with my small amateur telescope, I could barely see the comet that passed by last year.
hello.. can I invite you guys as a guest speaker via zoom meeting for my grade 9 students? we are currently on the topic of stars and constellations and astronomy vs. astrology...
thank you
Love the ecliptic! 🤩
Excited for next episode 🙃
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2021: Farmer with a shot gun constellation formed by 3 line of stars.
In indian calander, all months names are still as per those 12 constellation....
In indian calander, all months names are still as per those 12 constellation....
Hi Sarafina! Loving the show. Could you cover the history of measuring astronomical distances, for example using stellar parallaxes? :-)
Understanding how much you don't know is more important than what you think you know... Be careful of your Ego!
On a flat plane .... delete that part as fast as you can
And the part with dome
Cnstellations tells us our position in the solar system. So based on the constellations,how do I know which position I am in the solar system. Like if I see Orion, that means I'm in one particular position in the system. What is that position is that ?
An episode of Astronomy crossover with astrology would be cooler
I think the calendar shown was the famous one of the aztec culture, not mayan.
2:12 the animation is wrong the planets are orbiting in the wrong direction.
Very enjoyable, thank you. I had a question you may know the answer. A friend told me that present day astrology bases it's signs on the location of the stars 2,000 years ago. And according to the present location of the stars, I'm not an Aries but a Pisces . Is that true?
According to Indian Callender, all constellations have equal importance and same time gap
Also ancient Indians have measured and recorded astronomy correctly for thousands of years
I saw a group of stars that I named the constellation of picachu