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Two round chart plates on a charcoal ground, the northern sky and the southern, each centred on its pole and ruled with rim ticks, hour spokes, dashed circles and the ecliptic in a dashed terracotta line. The star figures sit at their true positions, joined in fine bone line: the Plough, the Little Bear, Cassiopeia, Cygnus, Lyra and the Pleiades on the northern plate; Orion, Canis Major, Scorpius, Sagittarius and the Southern Cross on the southern. Aldebaran and Antares are marked in terracotta.
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Celestial

Two Hemispheres

No. 6 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeTwo round chart plates on a charcoal ground, the northern sky and the southern, each centred on its pole and ruled with rim ticks, hour spokes, dashed circles and the ecliptic in a dashed terracotta line. The star figures sit at their true positions, joined in fine bone line: the Plough, the Little Bear, Cassiopeia, Cygnus, Lyra and the Pleiades on the northern plate; Orion, Canis Major, Scorpius, Sagittarius and the Southern Cross on the southern. Aldebaran and Antares are marked in terracotta.

What it meansThe paired hemispheres of old celestial atlases, with the figures every sky-watcher learns first. Aldebaran takes its name from the Arabic al-Dabaran, the follower, for the way it follows the Pleiades across the sky.

Where it worksFor a study, a library wall or above a desk.

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Tapered pale gold streaks cross a midnight ground, all pointing back to one spot beyond the top right corner, some tipped with a small cream spark.Meteor ShowerNo. 14

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