”Away high in the East swung
Remmirath, the Netted Stars, and
slowly above the mists red Borgil
rose, glowing like a jewel of fire.
Then by some shift of airs all the
mist was drawn away like a veil,
and there leaned up, as he
climbed over the rim of the world,
the Swordsman of the Sky,
Menelvagor with his shining belt.”
The fellowship of the ring
Art and science fiction
Astronomical View of the World
Lecture 11, 14.3.2017
Anne Lähteenmäki, Joni Tammi
Today
A short introduction
Your presentations
Fine arts
Dante’s The Divine Comedy
Van Gogh’s Starry night
Hubble
mosaic of
the Starry
night
Forensic astronomy: example
Van Gogh’s Moonrise was
painted at 9:08 p.m. on July
13, 1889.
Sky & Telescope 2003
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Astronomical poetry (google!)
“When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and
measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much
applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired, and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.”
Walt Whitman 1865
Astronomy in Middle-earth
• Solar calendars
• Lord of the Rings stories
are timed by moon
phases and visible stars
…but when is the cursed
Durin’s Day anyway?
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“The first day of the dwarves’ New
Year is, as all should know, the
first day of the last moon of
Autumn on the threshold of
Winter. We still call it Durin’s Day
when the last moon of Autumn
and the sun are in the sky
together. But this will not help us
much, I fear, for it passes our skill
in these days to guess when such
a time will come again.”
Remmirath, the netted stars
Borgil, the red star
Menelvagor, the swordsman
Valacirca, seven stars
Is it serious? Nah…
Fingerpori
xkcd comics
Astronomical music
A playlist in Spotify,
collected (mostly) by
astronomers
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Humppatähti
Sukkula Venukseen
Ufo tarjosi kaakaon
Lesbian vampires from outer
space
I fell in love with a starship trooper
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Supermassive black hole
Starman
Cosmic girl
CTA 102
Your presentations
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Riku Ahonen
Siri Bachmann
Petteri Heinonen
Niklas Hietala
Heini Hälinen
Harti Hänninen
Lumi Ketola
Annukka Laurila
Linda Mandell
Joona Savela
Aleksi Turpeinen