Stars without borders
With Professor Jarita Holbrook, we explored what people in African cultures see in the night sky. They told us how the sky was once used for calendars and navigation, the stories associated with the constellations, and how much of this knowledge has survived to the present day.
05. May 2025
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Together with Professor Jarita Holbrook, we explored what other cultures, especially in Africa, see in the night sky. Jarita is a wonderful conversationalist and researcher who introduced us to how ancient cultures used the sky for calendars and navigation, what their stories related to constellations are, and how much of this knowledge has been preserved to this day.
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Notes |
- Jarita Holbrook (Linkedin)
- African Cultural Astronomy (book)
- Black Suns: An Astrophysics Adventure (video)
- Movies: ASTROMOVES, SKA & Carnarvon
Observations |
- (book) G. Cannat, “Glej jih, zvezde! Najlepši prizori na nebu v letu 2025”
- ISS passes: on the website Vesolje.net, on the website Heavens-Above
- Space weather on Space Weather.com
- Aurora Borealis (Slovenian page): https://severnisij.si/
- Phone applications: Stellarium, SkySafari, SkyPortal, Aurora (for Aurora Borealis)
- Desktop planetarium: Stellarium
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Logo: (modified) Moon image, credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Audio intermezzo: NASA/Hubble/SYSTEM Sounds (Matt Russo, Andrew Santaguida)
Music: Peli (Opravičujemo se za vse nevšečnosti)
Podcast Temna stran Lune is part of the Zavoda Cosmolab activity network: https://www.cosmolab.si
