Running the First Script

00:00 Running the program.

00:04 Enter a Galaxy name and there you go. This is our graph. If you trace the line, you see that RAA just crosses the horizon at 9:00 PM that’s minus three and gets higher and higher in the sky, peaking just before 7:00 AM.

00:20 After that, it starts to descend.

00:24 I ran our script three more times on three different objects, and these charts are the results. On the left is the M 24 galaxy cluster at 9:00 PM It starts at about 10 degrees above the horizon, then peaks at around 30 degrees just after midnight, and then M 24 starts to descend.

00:42 It crosses the horizon again at 5:00 AM and continues downward. From there on the right is Betelgeuse. It starts over 20 degrees below the horizon and continues to descend until midnight, at which point Betelgeuse starts to ascend, crossing the horizon just before 6:00 AM It keeps going.

01:02 Still ascending past 10:00 AM the small graph below M 24 and Betelgeuse. Oh, crap. I said it three times, didn’t I? Now I’m going to get eaten by a sand worm unless I sing Calypso.

01:15 Shake, shake, shake, RA, shake your body line. Now you see that used to be a dated reference, but due to the magic of Hollywood, the sequel brings it back into the zeitgeist.

01:25 Where was I? Oh yeah, that tiny little graph at the bottom, it’s a bit boring. As it’s Polaris, the North Star. Polaris is in line with the tilt of the Earth, and so it doesn’t rise or fall.

01:36 And for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a steady value at our home’s latitude.