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The Galactic Alignment and 2012

I am surprised that the actual Galactic Alignment of the sun with the Galactic Equator on the winter solstice occurred in 1998. That’s 13 years ago. According to the John Major Jenkins article accompanying the image on the left, What is the Galactic Alignment?, the great Galactic Alignment is occurring in the “era-2012.” Furthermore, according to the image at the left, our sun will be on the verge of leaving the alignment with the Galactic Center in 2012. By the word-of-mouth and media buzz, it seemed as if the sun would be perfectly lined up with the Galactic Center on the 2012 winter solstice. As I understand John Major Jenkins’ article, the sun will be long past the perfect alignment with the Galaxy’s center in 2012.

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2010 Winter Star Party

We’re on the way to this year’s Winter Star Party in the Florida Keys. It is sponsored by the Southern Cross Astronomical Society. I hope to get better photographs of the Galactic Center for my 2012 movie. However, right now, it doesn’t look good. Lots of cloud cover.

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Amazing Time-Lapse Galactic Center Video

You are going to love this!

It is another link from my “2012, Edgar Cayce and the Maya” PowerPoint Presentation, as promised to the people in British Columbia who attended my seminar May 28th and June 4th. We were unable to connect to the internet at the event location, so here it is.

This time-lapse video was taken at the 2009 Texas Star Party on the night of April 21st and 22nd by William L. Castleman. The flashing red lights at the bottom right and left of the video are the red flashlights and red equipment lights necessary for maintaining night vision while viewing the stars. If regular white lights were used, a night sky phenomenon as dim as the Milky Way would not be visible to the naked eye.

Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images taken with 15mm fisheye lens.

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party on Vimeo

The video may take a little while to get started. At first, the screen will be totally black. Be patient. It’s worth it!

Carol Chapman

Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman

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NASA Photo of the The Galactic Center

Here is a link to a magnificent photograph taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Milky Way’s Galactic Center.  Because of dust clouds that hide the light of the stars in the Galactic Center, infrared photography was used, melding over 2,000 photographic images into this one amazing photograph.

Images of the Galactic Center are especially appropriate at this time because of the anticipated line up of the Sun and Earth with the Galactic Center on the Winter Solstice around December 21, 2012.

Just click on the link below the excerpt from the NASA web site:

Explanation: What’s happening at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy? To help find out, the orbiting Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have combined their efforts to survey the region in unprecedented detail in infrared light. Infrared light is particularly useful for probing the Milky Way’s center because visible light is more greatly obscured by dust. The above image encompasses over 2,000 images from the Hubble Space Telescope‘s NICMOS taken last year. The image spans 300 by 115 light years with such high resolution that structures only 20 times the size of our own Solar System are discernable.

APOD: 2009 January 7 – The Galactic Core in Infrared

Carol Chapman

Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman

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