⚪️ Shēngōng (神宫) – HIP 83100
A white giant star in Scorpius, once known in Chinese uranography as the Divine Palace, part of the Tail of the Azure Dragon.
Its soft Milky Way glow was seen as a sacred hall among the stars.
IAU-Adopted(2025).

#Shengong #ChineseAstronomy #WGSN #CulturalAstronomy

🟡 Honores (7 And) – HIP 114570
Latin for “honours” — from Bode’s Enlightenment-era constellation (1801) 📜
F1V main-sequence:
🌡️ 7,380 K | 1.6 M☉ | mag 4.52
📍 Left arm of Andromeda
✅ IAU-approved 2025
#WGSN #IAU #Honores #Andromeda #StarNames #CulturalAstronomy

✨ On 22 July, PM Anthony Albanese proudly called Epsilon Crucis "Ginan", an Australian star — featured in the flag 🇳🇿.
Named by the IAU in honour of the Wardaman people and their sky stories.

#Ginan #EpsilonCrucis #IAUStarNames #CulturalAstronomy #SouthernCross

✨Did you know Indigenous star knowledge often maps land, ceremony, and community—not just space?

What does your night sky connect you to?

#CulturalAstronomy #IndigenousScience #StoryInTheStars

Excited for tomorrow's talk in panel 5.8. (Scientific and Celestial Writing). Do join us! #Rensoc25 #Bristol #SRS #earlymodern #skystorians #bookhistory #historyofscience #culturalastronomy

High in the Andes, the Inca built Machu Picchu to align with the #sky. 🌞🏔️
The Intihuatana stone & Temple of the #Sun mark #solstices — a sacred fusion of landscape, #astronomy, & spirit.

📍 Peru (~1450 CE)

Time, carved in stone.
#AncientSkies #IncaAstronomy #CulturalAstronomy

Older than Stonehenge. Aligned to the winter solstice.
The Goseck Circle in Germany (~4800 BCE) is one of the world’s oldest solar observatories — built by Neolithic skywatchers who tracked the Sun with precision & purpose.🔭
#AncientSkies #CulturalAstronomy #SolsticeScience

Long before smartphones or #Stonehenge tours, Native Mississippians tracked the Sun with #Woodhenge — a giant timber circle aligned to #solstices. 🌞🪵

📍 Cahokia, Illinois (~1100 CE)

Brilliant Indigenous astronomy.
No aliens required.
🧪 🔭
#AncientSkies #CulturalAstronomy

Twice a year, the Sun casts a shadow serpent down the Temple of Kukulcán at Chichén Itzá. 🐍🌞
This equinox illusion isn’t magic — it’s Maya #astronomy at its finest.
📍 Yucatán, Mexico (~1050 CE)
#Science, story, and stone — perfectly aligned.
#AncientSkies #CulturalAstronomy

🔭 At Angkor Wat, the rising Sun aligns with the central tower on #solstices and #equinoxes — a cosmic connection carved in stone. 🏯🌞

📍 Cambodia (~1150 CE)

Astronomy, architecture, and spirituality woven into one breathtaking temple. 🧪

#AncientSkies #CulturalAstronomy

Silhouette of a person mirroring the Tupi constellation of the Old Man, composed of the Hyades, Orion's belt, and Betelgeuse. The Pleiades is depicted as a head feather. The image showcases how different cultures interpret the night sky, highlighting the rich storytelling embedded in constellations. A stunning sunset completes the scene.

Astronomy Picture from 12/01/2021

A Historic Brazilian Constellation

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210112.html


#IndigenousAstronomy #TupiConstellation #NightSkyStories #Orion #Hyades #Pleiades #Betelgeuse #CulturalAstronomy #Starlore #Astrology #AstronomyPhotography #APOD

Hand-coloured astronomical playing cards with constellations, British, 1670-1700
#CulturalAstronomy #astrology #history

Miniature of an astronomer with an astrolabe in a Latin 'Treatise on Astronomy', England, mid-12th Century.
#astrology #astronomy #history #CulturalAstronomy

Text reads "Venus Stories: Love, Fridays, Inanna, The Plumed Serpent, and Barbie. Image is Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca from The Codex Borbonicus

Here's the latest blog, all about Venus reaching peak brightness this Valentine's Day and Venus retrograde mythology, including mentions of Frigg, Inanna, Quetzalcoatl, and Barbie: substack.com/home/post/p-... #Venus #SkyStories #CulturalAstronomy

Mural at Kona airport of Hawaiian elders with the moon and Dr Holbrook.

Celebrate women and girls in STEM today! Maintaining a research career as well as promoting junior scientists has been a rewarding challenge. I’m always looking at the sky and how humans bring the sky to Earth. #culturalastronomy #indigenousastronomy #blackinastro.

Yes.

#Archaeoastronomy aka #AstroArchaeology aka #CulturalAstronomy.

I research how eclipses influenced ancient humanity's religious beliefs and iconography etc.

It's possible the Durdle Door's natural winter solstice alignment was noticed and "observed" religiously by ancient people.

The Irish Megalithic Research Group | # "Modern research now combining archaeology, skyscape archaeology, and cultural astronomy all come together to, in a sense, try to interpret these th... | Facebo... # "Modern research now combining archaeology, skyscape archaeology, and cultural astronomy all come together to, in a sense, try to interpret these things. And what I like to think about here is that....

'And what I like to think about here is that the remains of the dead, the spirits of the ancestors, entombed within this sacred space, are joined to a deified sun on the horizon. . .'

Dr. Frank Prendergast

www.facebook.com/groups/23993...

#SkyscapeArchaeology #CulturalAstronomy #NewgrangeSolstice

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English Heritage is livestreaming the winter solstice sunrise at Stonehenge, however it is my understanding that #Stonehenge is actually aligned with the #WinterSolsticeSunset and #SummerSolstice sunrise.

#WinterSolstice #WinterSolstice2024 #CulturalAstronomy

www.youtube.com/live/3zzIJiv...

Cultural Eclipsology Overview Presentation 2024 February 6 2024 Eclipses, especially total solar eclipses, have had a much greater influence on ancient humanity’s religious beliefs and iconography than is generally understood. Cultural Eclipsology is a subset of c...

Can I interest you in an #Eclipsology subfeed? 😉

Or more precisely a #CulturalEclipsology subfeed?

The latter is a specialization within #CulturalAstronomy that researches how #eclipses influence(d) culture inc. ancient #ReligiousBeliefs and #iconography.

www.academia.edu/114609111/Cu...

It is a great satisfaction, after years of work, to have been able to successfully lead the proposal for a Bachelor's Degree in Cultural Astronomy. This is a degree lasting 5 full years, the first of its kind in the world. More to come next year.

#culturalastronomy #astronomy #science

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It might interest you to know that 'The Stars and the Stones' by Martin Brennan is available online in PDF format here -

www.scribd.com/document/454...

#Megalithic #Neolithic #Prehistoric #Ireland #Loughcrew #Knowth #Newgrange #Dowth #MegalithicArt #ArtInterpretation #Astronomy #CulturalAstronomy