This is the post I was working on before yesterday's walk in the snow photos (and that tit killing) usurped it. Some of the comments from the last Blogorati Stars post (featuring 'Petra) got me thinking about how to get more of you lovely Blogorati into the night sky. Short of launching you into orbit aboard Ariane 5, that is...
As only two of you - the aforementioned 'Petra and the inestimable Mago - actually appear in the IAU's list of approved star names, some plottingscheming unconventional thinking is required to get the rest of you up there. For example, Melanie Reynolds used to be known as Proxima Blue - in her words: "inspired by Proxima Centauri, yes I know its a red dwarf, shush! You don't know her heart." - so why not work up a star map of the constellation Centaurus and pop Melanie in there in place of Proxima? Because I can't see it. Centaurus is too far below the ecliptic for me to see its nether regions (where Proxima lies), so there'll be no photos and, therefore, no star map. We'll have to come up with a different star.
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