The Public Houses of the Corvedale
No-one knows who it was that named them, but the pubs of the Corvedale are all named after heavenly bodies (or is it the other way around?).
| The Sun |
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Our
nearest star! It's big and hot! The earth would fit inside it 1,300,000
times. The outer surface is 6,000 degrees C. and energy generated in
the Sun's core takes a million years to reach its surface. It appears
to have been active for 4.6 billion years and has enough fuel to go
on for another five billion years or so. We hope. NEVER EVER LOOK
AT IT through telescopes/binocs/magnifying lenses etc. as the energy
will burn a hole in the back of your eye, straight through your brain,
and out of the back of your head. Leastways you will definitely go blind.
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All the planets of our solar system orbit around the Sun, and we derive all our energy from it, via the wonders of photosynthesis, the heating of the atmosphere, and through radioactive elements that were left when the earth was formed out of the ether many years ago. It gives us sun tans and skin cancer, solar panel heating and snowdrops. It was used for navigating at sea for centuries, and it lends us our concept of time, seasons, and years. In the Corvedale we don't always see it, but we know it's there, and we wouldn't want spoil ourselves by having too much of a good thing.
| The Swan |
| Cygnus, a beautiful constellation, looks like a swan flying across the night sky. Its head is Albireo, which is two stars very close to each other, coloured gold and blue. |  |
| The Crown |
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Corona
Borealis, the Northern Crown, sits just behind the head of Bootes
the Herdsman, and Gemma (or Alphecca to give it its arabic name) is
the brightest jewel in the crown.
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| The Seven Stars |
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The
Pleiades, Hen and Chickens, Seven Sisters, or Subaru (in Japanese).
The prettiest collection in the winter sky. This is an Open Cluster
of newish stars, formed only 100 million years ago, making them a fiftieth
of the age of our sun. The light that you can see was created 425 years
ago, when Galileo
was celebrating his 16th birthday.
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