1 00:00:02,335 --> 00:00:24,491 JAMES: HEY THERE STAR GAZERS. 2 00:00:24,591 --> 00:00:28,361 I'M JAMES ALBURY, DIRECTOR OF THE KIKA SILVA PLA PLANETARIUM IN GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. 3 00:00:28,461 --> 00:00:32,065 DEAN: AND I'M DEAN REGAS, ASTRONOMER FOR THE CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY. 4 00:00:32,165 --> 00:00:35,502 WE'RE HERE TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR WAY AROUND THE SKY TONIGHT. 5 00:00:35,602 --> 00:00:38,505 THE ANCIENT STAR GAZERS HAD A LOT OF IMAGINATION. 6 00:00:38,605 --> 00:00:43,843 JAMES: WHEN THEY LOOKED AT THE STARS, THEY CONNECTED THE DOTS AND PICTURED PEOPLE, ANIMALS, 7 00:00:43,943 --> 00:00:45,879 RIVERS, AND EVEN ENTIRE SCENES. 8 00:00:45,979 --> 00:00:51,451 DEAN: AND IN THE FALL EVENING SKY, IF YOU HAVE AN ANCIENT IMAGINATION YOU CAN SEE A 9 00:00:51,551 --> 00:00:52,452 KING AND A QUEEN 10 00:00:52,552 --> 00:00:53,820 JAMES: A PRINCE AND A PRINCESS 11 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,221 DEAN: TWO MONSTERS AND 12 00:00:55,321 --> 00:00:58,024 JAMES: A FLYING HORSE (WHO'S FLYING UPSIDE-DOWN BY THE WAY). 13 00:00:58,124 --> 00:01:01,494 DEAN: IT'S GONNA GET CROWDED UP THERE BUT WE CAN WALK YOU THROUGH IT. 14 00:01:01,594 --> 00:01:06,766 JAMES: OKAY, WE HAVE OUR SKY SET UP FOR 9 PM FACING NORTHEAST. 15 00:01:06,866 --> 00:01:11,404 ABOUT HALFWAY-UP IN THE SKY YOU' LL FIND THE FIVE, FAMILIAR STARS THAT LOOK LIKE A LETTER 16 00:01:11,504 --> 00:01:12,505 W. 17 00:01:12,605 --> 00:01:14,941 DEAN: THIS IS THE BEAUTIFUL QUEEN CASSIOPEIA. 18 00:01:15,041 --> 00:01:20,013 NOW STRETCH YOUR IMAGINATIONS A LITTLE AND SEE IF YOU CAN MAKE OUT A QUEEN OF ETHIOPIA 19 00:01:20,113 --> 00:01:21,347 SITTING ON HER THRONE. 20 00:01:21,448 --> 00:01:25,151 JAMES: SORRY, I GUESS I DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH IMAGINATION. 21 00:01:25,251 --> 00:01:29,055 BUT ONCE YOU FIND HER, SHE IS THE CENTRAL CHARACTER OF OUR STORY. 22 00:01:29,155 --> 00:01:33,893 DEAN: LEGEND HAS IT THAT CASSIOPEIA BRAGGED ABOUT HER BEAUTY WAY TOO MUCH. 23 00:01:33,993 --> 00:01:39,399 IN FACT ONE DAY SHE SAID (NOW GET THIS), SHE SAID, I'M MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN ALL THE MERMAIDS 24 00:01:39,499 --> 00:01:40,500 IN THE OCEAN. 25 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,102 JAMES: YIKES! 26 00:01:42,202 --> 00:01:45,905 THAT GOT POSEIDON, THE GOD OF THE SEA, SUPER-MAD. 27 00:01:46,005 --> 00:01:51,010 HE CONFRONTED CASSIOPEIA'S HUSBAND, KING CEPHEUS, WHOSE FIVE FAINTER STARS ARE UP AND TO THE 28 00:01:51,111 --> 00:01:52,645 LEFT OF HIS WIFE. 29 00:01:52,745 --> 00:01:54,981 THE STARS LOOK LIKE AN UPSIDE-DOWN HOUSE. 30 00:01:55,081 --> 00:01:59,752 DEAN: FOR INSULTING THE GODS, CASSIOPEIA HAD TO GIVE UP HER ONE AND ONLY DAUGHTER, THE 31 00:01:59,853 --> 00:02:01,754 PRINCESS ANDROMEDA, AS A SACRIFICE. 32 00:02:01,855 --> 00:02:06,860 BASICALLY, THEY HAD TO CHAIN ANDROMEDA TO A BIG ROCK IN THE OCEAN, AND LET POSEIDON'S 33 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,695 PET SEA MONSTER EAT HER. 34 00:02:08,795 --> 00:02:11,998 JAMES: YOU CAN FIND ANDROMEDA TO THE RIGHT OF CASSIOPEIA. 35 00:02:12,098 --> 00:02:14,501 HER STARS LOOK MORE LIKE A SKINNY LETTER A. 36 00:02:14,601 --> 00:02:16,202 DEAN: A FOR ANDROMEDA. 37 00:02:16,302 --> 00:02:17,737 JAMES: EXACTLY. 38 00:02:17,837 --> 00:02:23,109 JAMES: ANDROMEDA ALSO HOUSES THE CLOSEST SPIRAL GALAXY TO OUR MILKY WAY. 39 00:02:23,209 --> 00:02:28,047 IT'S CALLED THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY BECAUSE YOU CAN FIND IT NEAR HER RIGHT HIP-STAR. 40 00:02:28,148 --> 00:02:31,518 OF COURSE IF YOU LIVE IN A LIGHT POLLUTED AREA, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE THIS GALAXY. 41 00:02:31,618 --> 00:02:36,456 HOWEVER, IF YOU'RE OUT IN THE COUNTRY YOU MIGHT SEE IT LOOKING LIKE A LITTLE CLOUD, 42 00:02:36,556 --> 00:02:38,358 BARELY VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE. 43 00:02:38,458 --> 00:02:43,096 DEAN: WITH BINOCULARS YOU CAN RESOLVE A LOT MORE OF ITS CLOUDY NATURE, AND WITH A TELESCOPE 44 00:02:43,196 --> 00:02:46,432 YOU CAN SEE IT AS A LONG, FUZZY BLUR. 45 00:02:46,533 --> 00:02:51,304 IMAGINE A GALAXY, WITH ONE TRILLION STARS, THAT YOU CAN'T SEE WITH THE NAKED EYE. 46 00:02:51,404 --> 00:02:53,206 SPACE IS SCARY-BIG! 47 00:02:53,306 --> 00:02:59,646 JAMES: NOW BEFORE THE SEA MONSTER MAKES HIS APPEARANCE WE MUST INTRODUCE OUR HERO, PERSEUS. 48 00:02:59,746 --> 00:03:03,950 AS THE STORY GOES, PERSEUS, THAT VERY MORNING, SLEW THE WICKED GORGON MEDUSA. 49 00:03:04,050 --> 00:03:08,688 DEAN: SHE'S THE ONE WITH SNAKES FOR HAIR AND TURNS YOU TO STONE WITH JUST ONE LOOK. 50 00:03:08,788 --> 00:03:13,693 JAMES: LOOKING AT HER REFLECTION IN HIS SHIELD, PERSEUS CHOPPED OFF HER HEAD, THEN PUT THE 51 00:03:13,793 --> 00:03:15,595 HEAD IN A BAG FOR SAFE KEEPING. 52 00:03:15,695 --> 00:03:20,066 DEAN: LATER THAT AFTERNOON, AS HE WAS FLYING THROUGH THE AIR (ON HIS WINGED SANDALS), WITH 53 00:03:20,166 --> 00:03:25,038 THE INFAMOUS BAG AT HIS SIDE, PERSEUS HAPPENED TO SPY A YOUNG MAIDEN IN DISTRESS. 54 00:03:25,138 --> 00:03:27,440 JAMES: OUR PRINCESS, ANDROMEDA! 55 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:32,111 NOW WE'RE FACING EAST AT 10PM AND PERSEUS APPEARS ON THE SCENE. 56 00:03:32,212 --> 00:03:35,381 YOU CAN FIND HIM AS A SQUIGGLE OF STARS BELOW ANDROMEDA'S FEET. 57 00:03:35,481 --> 00:03:40,954 DEAN: THE SEA MONSTER, A CONSTELLATION NAMED CETUS, IS JUST RISING IN THE EAST-SOUTHEAST. 58 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:43,923 I THINK HIS STARS LOOK LIKE A RECLINER CHAIR. 59 00:03:44,023 --> 00:03:45,692 JAMES: THAT DOESN'T SEEM SO SCARY. 60 00:03:45,792 --> 00:03:50,129 DEAN: ANYWAY, PERSEUS YELLS TO ANDROMEDA, CLOSE YOUR EYES! 61 00:03:50,230 --> 00:03:55,435 THEN HE CLOSES HIS EYES, REACHES INTO THE BAG AND PULLS OUT MEDUSA'S SEVERED HEAD, SHOWS 62 00:03:55,535 --> 00:03:59,706 IT TO THE SEA MONSTER WHO TAKES ONE LOOK AT IT AND, POOF TURNS TO STONE. 63 00:03:59,806 --> 00:04:02,108 JAMES: PERSEUS SAVES THE DAY! 64 00:04:02,208 --> 00:04:04,477 JAMES: WOW, WHAT A STARRY STORY. 65 00:04:04,577 --> 00:04:09,349 A KING, A QUEEN, A PRINCE AND PRINCESS, TWO MONSTERS AND OOPS, WE FORGOT THE FLYING 66 00:04:09,449 --> 00:04:10,350 HORSE. 67 00:04:10,450 --> 00:04:11,584 DEAN: OH YEAH! 68 00:04:11,684 --> 00:04:13,686 PEGASUS WAS, SUPPOSEDLY, BORN FROM THIS EPIC BATTLE. 69 00:04:13,786 --> 00:04:18,858 AS PERSEUS HELD OUT MEDUSA'S HEAD - THIS IS GROSS NOW - SOME OF HER BLOOD FELL INTO THE 70 00:04:18,958 --> 00:04:22,228 WATER, AND TURNED MAGICALLY INTO PEGASUS THE FLYING HORSE. 71 00:04:22,328 --> 00:04:23,229 JAMES: OH COME ON! 72 00:04:23,329 --> 00:04:24,230 THAT IS TOO WEIRD! 73 00:04:24,330 --> 00:04:26,132 DEAN: AGREED. 74 00:04:26,232 --> 00:04:28,701 BUT THAT'S THE KIND OF IMAGINATION WE'RE DEALING WITH WHEN WE LEARN ABOUT THE CONSTELLATIONS 75 00:04:28,801 --> 00:04:29,702 AND WHEN YOU... 76 00:04:29,802 --> 00:04:33,802 BOTH: KEEP LOOKING UP!