A Phenomenon of Our Largest Star


South in the Antarctica, the early photographers there took a grand picture of the yearly arrival of the sun over their outpost. The following two pre-telescope astronomy descriptions appear to fit this strange sun display. In the Northern Russia in 1141, on April 1st, there was a very marvellous sign in the sky; six circles, three close about the sun, and three other large ones outside the sun, and stood nearly all day, seen from Russian recorded in the Chronicle of Novgovod.(16) While somewhere in a Euro-Greek community, in 1157, a person called Conrad Lycosthenes, recorded that two moons appeared in the sky, with a sun in the middle marked by a cross, recorded by (TSC 11) in Jean Pierre Verder's book The Sky, Order and Chaos. Thames & Hudson, London (1992).

There are many things we can never see, and many more that have never been seen. How can one discount the written descriptions of the star watchers of long ago, because our telescopes can now see into outer space?