Find Zelda’s Giant Rupee | December 9 – December 15
Season 47 Episode 50 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Star Gazers STGZ442 December 9-15, 2024 “Find Zelda’s Giant Rupee in the Sky Dec 2024”
Star Gazers STGZ442 December 9-15, 2024 “Find Zelda’s Giant Rupee in the Sky Dec 2024”
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Funding provided by The Batchelor Foundation and The William J. & Tina Rosenberg Foundation
Find Zelda’s Giant Rupee | December 9 – December 15
Season 47 Episode 50 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Star Gazers STGZ442 December 9-15, 2024 “Find Zelda’s Giant Rupee in the Sky Dec 2024”
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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THE WINTER HEXAGON SHINING AGAIN!
OR IS IT A FOOTBALL??
... OR A GIANT RUPEE WAITING FOR LINK TO SCOOP IT UP?
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT -- THIS ASTERISM IS GLITTERING HIGH IN THE SKY THIS TIME OF YEAR!
TO FIND IT, LOOK SOUTHEAST AFTER ELEVEN -- THE RUPEE ENCOMPASSES SIX CONSTELLATIONS AND EIGHT OF THE BRIGHTEST STARS VISIBLE FROM EARTH!
THIS FIRST ONE IS THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE SKY: SIRIUS THE DOG STAR.
FIND IT USING ORION’S THREE BELT STARS, THEY POINT RIGHT TO IT.
FROM HERE: GO CLOCKWISE AND YOU’LL FIND PROCYON THE LITTLE DOG STAR, NEXT UP TO CASTOR AND POLLUX THE TWIN STARS OF GEMINI, THEN TO CAPELLA THE TOP.
FROM THERE IT’S BACK DOWN AND AROUND THROUGH ALDEBARAN, THE EYE OF TAURUS THE BULL, TO RIGEL, A BLUE SUPERGIANT AND ORION’S LEFT FOOT.
LASTLY, BACK TO SIRIUS.
Daaadum DUM DUMMM!
PLUS THE MOON WILL PASS BY JUPITER IN TAURUS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
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