Southern Sky
Once i got to the pier I saw it.. How glorious it was, and the lake even was open to the south. What did I see? The entirely foreign South Hemisphere late summer display of stars! I got out the star guide when I got home and drew in the coolest parts. An Arm of the Southern Cross points to the south pole. Barely visible, Proxima Centauri was found with much back and forth between the star guide and the sky. Eta Carinae is a star 100x larger than the sun that is about to erupt in a nova, its brightness has been increasing by a factor of five in the last 200 years.
The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more 
