Where am I?

[Beyond]

haha, are you haveing a lot of cloudy days where you are on earth, Moonlady If so, it would seem that the solution to your puzzle, is a star that no-one wishes upon.

[Moonlady]

I am the sun and Moonlady doesnt get any sight of me, because in her location several hills around the city traps clouds and fogs and that does prevent the sight of me.

[Beyond]

Well, it's time for me to get some sleep before you come out of hiding, Mr. sun. Have a good non-night.

[Ann]

So it's the Sun?

Ann

[MargaritaMc]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

I was reminded of this a couple of MORNINGS ago. What was I looking at? (Yes, it was astronomical)

Margarita

[Beyond]

The only thing astronomical that anyway resembles a teapot, that i can think of is:

The Pleiades. I used to refer to them as a scoop with a handle, until i found out what they really are.

[MargaritaMc]

The only thing astronomical that anyway resembles a teapot, that i can think of is:

The Pleiades. I used to refer to them as a scoop with a handle, until i found out what they really are.

Good try - but no coconut! (i.e. WRONG! )

Try again?

M

[Moonlady]

Beyond, why are you hiding your replies?

Is it Sagittarius? http://www.space.com/8714-cosmic-teapot ... r-sky.html

[MargaritaMc]

Beyond, why are you hiding your replies?

Is it Sagittarius? http://www.space.com/8714-cosmic-teapot ... r-sky.html

Give the lady a coconut!

http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sgr-t.html The upside-down Little Milk Dipper of Sagittarius dominates the upper center of the photograph, its handle sticking into the Milky Way. Nunki is the upper right hand star of the bowl. Sagittarius' "bow" starts at the end of the Little Milk Dipper's handle and bends down and to the left (from top to bottom, Kaus Borealis, Kaus Media, and Kaus Australis). The arrow runs from the center of the bow down and to the right and points to the center of the Galaxy (GC) in the dark clouds of the Milky Way, seen running from upper right to lower center. X Sgr is the bright star just above the Galactic Center. The bow, arrow, and the Little Milk Dipper together make "the "Teapot." The cluster M 7 in Scorpius is seen just to the right of bottom center; Scorpius's two star "Stinger" is at the bottom edge. The Lagoon Nebula, M 8, lies just to the left of the Winter Solstice. Down and to the left of the Little Milk Dipper curls the semi-circle of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. See the wide field of constellations around Sagittarius. At lower right is Theta Ophiuchi.

I can NOT make a figure of a centaur and bow from the stars of Sagittarius, but the TEAPOT is beautifully clear.
And now I'm back to my studies!
Margarita

[Beyond]

Beyond, why are you hiding your replies?

Is it Sagittarius? http://www.space.com/8714-cosmic-teapot ... r-sky.html

That's a good question, Moonlady. Maybe I'll figure it out some day.

[Beyond]

Say... isn't Sagittarius the half horse half human with a bow?? I wonder how many other things could be seen by connecting the stars differently?

[MargaritaMc]

Say... isn't Sagittarius the half horse half human with a bow?? I wonder how many other things could be seen by connecting the stars differently?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittar ... #section_3

Wikipedia
The Babylonians identified Sagittarius as the god Nerigal or Nergal, a strange centaur-like creature firing an arrow from a bow.[17] It is generally depicted with wings, with two heads, one panther head and one human head, as well as a scorpion's stinger raised above its more conventional horse's tail. The Sumerian name Pabilsag is composed of two elements – Pabil, meaning 'elder paternal kinsman' and Sag, meaning 'chief, head'. The name may thus be translated as the 'Forefather' or 'Chief Ancestor'.[18] The figure is reminiscent of modern depictions of Sagittarius.

In Greek mythology, Sagittarius is identified as a centaur: half human, half horse. In some legends, the Centaur Chiron was the son of Philyra and Saturn, who was said to have changed himself into a horse to escape his jealous wife, Rhea. Chiron was eventually immortalised in the constellation of Centaurus or in some version, Sagittarius.[citation needed]

The arrow of this constellation points towards the star Antares, the "heart of the scorpion."

To me, it looks like a teapot!
Margarita

[Moonlady]

Beyond, why are you hiding your replies?

Is it Sagittarius? http://www.space.com/8714-cosmic-teapot ... r-sky.html

That's a good question, Moonlady. Maybe I'll figure it out some day.

Beyond

I thought you would keep going with your tradition, now I am confused

[Beyond]

Tradition What tradition Now you've got me confused.

[MargaritaMc]

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Margarita

[Beyond]

I remember seeing that someplace, but not really paying attention to what it's about. Oh well.

[MargaritaMc]

I remember seeing that someplace, but not really paying attention to what it's about. Oh well.

Well - that will teach you to Pay More Attention!

[Ann]

Well, Margarita, I have no idea, so I will be... rambling!

First of all, it looks like something out of a science fiction movie. All those shiny things could be "pods" of some kind, holding alien pupae or maybe human embryos mass produced in order to become slaves, or worse. (Remember Matrix?)

Or else this could be some sort of scientific plant of some sort, probably built in order to look into some aspect of space. I'm thinking of those large subterranean "pools" of water, whose aim is to capture neutrinos.

Maybe. But probably not.

Ann

[Beyond]

I remember seeing that someplace, but not really paying attention to what it's about. Oh well.

Well - that will teach you to Pay More Attention!

I'm poor. I can't afford to 'pay' much attention. However, i think it may go to what Ann was 'rambling' about. A detector of some kind.

[MargaritaMc]

Ann wrote,
I'm thinking of those large subterranean "pools" of water, whose aim is to capture neutrinos.

AWW!! I thought you'd take a bit longer to get THIS one!

For an bunch of flowers - do you know where it is?
Margarita

[stephen63]

Super-Kamiokande or Super-K for short, a neutrino observatory in the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

[MargaritaMc]

Super-Kamiokande or Super-K for short, a neutrino observatory in the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

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COR! (English expletive expressing surprise)
Well, I'm going to post the info I had prepared ANYWAY!
....
Where?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande

What? Mending a broken neutrino detector at Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory.
Photo from Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo
(according to May, Moore and Lintott in "Bang! The History of the Universe" and according to Google images - but I can't find it on the ICRR website.)

Connection with astronomy
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino ... #section_3
....
Margarita

[Beyond]

Hey Doesn't stephen63 get a bunch of flowers

[MargaritaMc]

Hey Doesn't stephen63 get a bunch of flowers

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Margarita

[Beyond]

Now just where did i insist that Stephen63 likes flowers I figured that if you were going to give them to Ann for coming up with where the detector is, that you would give them to anyone who came up with the right answer. After all... you never mentioned chocolate cake or fruit then.