Our place in the sky

Have you ever wondered what significance our Sun might have in alien astrology? This post contains pictures of imaginary constellations from the night skies of hypothetical planets orbiting real stars. All stars in these constellations are real, and in each case one of them is always our very own Sun.

I created the images using the shareware program Starstrider. It’s an excellent program in theory (and mostly in practise, too) but I’ve always felt it’s a little too buggy for the $50 US asking price. However, I’ve now decided to buy it, for two reasons. One, the exchange rate right now is such that it probably really is worth the price. Two, I expect that the next release of the program (which might fix some bugs) will not be compatible with my computer.

First of all, the the view from Alpha Centauri shows our Sun to be the very tip of an animalesque constellation’s snout. Compared to Delta Persei, which is quite a different orifice of the same beast, we may consider ourselves fortunate.