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Since a majority of the world's population now lives in cities, starry nights have become increasingly rare. However, our everyday life is dominated still by artificial heavenly bodies. | Since a majority of the world's population now lives in cities, starry nights have become increasingly rare. However, our everyday life is dominated still by artificial heavenly bodies. | ||
TV shows are transmitted through satellite dishes, weather forecasts are based upon remote sensing satellites and navigation devices in cars triangulate its position by GPS. We know the extent of the ozone hole just as well as iranian nuclear sites from a satellite's perspective. Daily routine without satellites is almost unimaginable - yet they remain invisible. | TV shows are transmitted through satellite dishes, weather forecasts are based upon remote sensing satellites and navigation devices in cars triangulate its position by GPS. We know the extent of the ozone hole just as well as iranian nuclear sites from a satellite's perspective. Daily routine without satellites is almost unimaginable - yet they remain invisible. | ||
high-tech equipment of his time represented in the stars of the south: the compass, the pendulum clock, the microscope, the air-pump and the furnace. In his tradition a map of satellite constellations needs to be made which allows for the special circumstances of moving objects with different orbital planes - the satellite zodiac. | |||
In this paper I want to propose a new taxonomy on how satellite constellations can be named and how the difficulties of this venture can be solved. | In this paper I want to propose a new taxonomy on how satellite constellations can be named and how the difficulties of this venture can be solved. | ||