by neufer » Tue May 09, 2017 3:01 pm
Nitpicker wrote:
I must have misunderestimated (don't y'all miss Dubya) the position of the horizon.
- Dubya the second-dimmest president of the United States...YES
![Exclamation :!:](./images/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif)
Dubhe the second-brightest star of Ursa Major (~ 5° above the horizon here)... no.
Note: Ursa Major is definitely too low on the horizon and the mirror image is too accurate (i.e., the mountains
should obscure more of the lower stars in the lake reflection) to wonder about some Photoshopping here.
Nitpicker wrote:
I figured the lagoon to be a bit further south than 18°.
- World's highest lagoon
![Question :?:](./images/smilies/icon_question.gif)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=lagoon wrote:
lagoon (n.) 1670s, lagune, earlier laguna (1610s), "area of marsh or shallow,
brackish water beside a sea but separated from it by dunes," from French lagune or directly from Italian laguna "pond, lake," from Latin lacuna "pond, hole," from lacus "pond" (see lake (n.1)). Originally in reference to the region of Venice. The word was applied 1769 (by Capt. Cook) to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll.
lake (n.1) "body of water surrounded by land and filling a depression or basin," early 12c., from Old French lack (12c., Modern French lac) and directly from Latin lacus "pond, pool, lake," also "basin, tank, reservoir" (related to lacuna "hole, pit"), from PIE *laku- "body of water, lake, sea" (source also of Greek lakkos "pit, tank, pond," Old Church Slavonic loky "pool, puddle, cistern," Old Irish loch "lake, pond"). The common notion is "basin."
[quote="Nitpicker"]
I must have misunderestimated (don't y'all miss Dubya) the position of the horizon.[/quote]
[list]Dubya the second-dimmest president of the United States...[b][u][color=#FF0000]YES[/color][/u][/b] :!:
Dubhe the second-brightest star of Ursa Major (~ 5° above the horizon here)... no.[/list]
Note: Ursa Major is definitely too low on the horizon and the mirror image is too accurate (i.e., the mountains
should obscure more of the lower stars in the lake reflection) to wonder about some Photoshopping here.
[quote="Nitpicker"]
I figured the lagoon to be a bit further south than 18°.[/quote]
[list]World's highest lagoon :?: [/list]
[quote=" http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=lagoon"]
lagoon (n.) 1670s, lagune, earlier laguna (1610s), "area of marsh or shallow, [b][u][color=#0000FF]brackish water beside a sea but separated from it by dunes[/color][/u][/b]," from French lagune or directly from Italian laguna "pond, lake," from Latin lacuna "pond, hole," from lacus "pond" (see lake (n.1)). Originally in reference to the region of Venice. The word was applied 1769 (by Capt. Cook) to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll.
lake (n.1) "body of water surrounded by land and filling a depression or basin," early 12c., from Old French lack (12c., Modern French lac) and directly from Latin lacus "pond, pool, lake," also "basin, tank, reservoir" (related to lacuna "hole, pit"), from PIE *laku- "body of water, lake, sea" (source also of Greek lakkos "pit, tank, pond," Old Church Slavonic loky "pool, puddle, cistern," Old Irish loch "lake, pond"). The common notion is "basin."[/quote]