Eye On The Night Sky For Wednesday, September 9

0:00I'm Mark Breen. Welcome to Night Sky for Wednesday, September 9. We're gazing at the stars above the southern horizon this week, just as night falls from 8 to 830 where the horoscope constellation Sagittarius appears rather low, but as highs it ever appears in our skies at our northerly latitude, nearly halfway from the equator to the North Pole. As described yesterday, the key pattern in Sagittarius suggests a teapot with its triangular lid resting on top of the teapot, a handle connects on the left side, tipping the teapot up on the left, fitting nicely with the image of the spout on the right getting ready to pour. Yet Sagittarius is not a teapot, nothing like it at all. Sagittarius in Latin means the archer, or belonging to arrows. The earliest versions from Mesopotamia depict the archer as some blended form of creature. The Greeks drew heavily on the Babylonian god Nurgle and Sumerian god Pavlsag, both

1:01Centaur-like, with a horse's body and a human torso. Finding the archer among the stars of the teapot, Thursday, on Night Sky. Night Sky is a production of Vermont public in the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium.