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Sagittarius A-Star - The Milky Way's Galactic Center
(Image NASA et al.) Our Solar System revolves around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy (the Galactic Center). A large Black Hole lies at this center. An unusual concentration of stellar matter surrounds this Black Hole. This was discovered in February 1974 by Bruce Balick and Robert Brown, and named Sagittarius A* (pronounced "Sagittarius A star").
Sagittarius A* was determined to be the center of the Milky Way, about 26,000 light years from our Solar System. We know the center is a Black Hole from observations of nearby suns in very fast orbits around it, showing high gravitational attraction. In 1999, knowing that Sagittarius A* was the center of the Milky Way Galaxy allowed astronomer Mark Reid and associates at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to calculate that our Solar System takes approximately 226 million years to revolve around the Galactic Center.
On 1 April 2004, astronomers announced they had accurately measured the size of Sagittarius A* with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radiotelescope, with stations spread across the Earth. Sagittarius A* appears to be the diameter of the Earth's orbit around the Sun (93 million miles). The central Black Hole is about 14 million miles in diameter, but astronomers have not yet been able to measure it accurately. They expect to find its size by monitoring shorter and shorter radio wavelengths, until they see light from Sagittarius A* fall off at a wavelength that corresponsds to the size of the Black Hole at its center. For more on the Galactic Center, see Galactic Center Research at the Max-Planck Institute.
The most intriguing of these is the myth of Osiris and Isis. The story of the murder, dismemberment and subsequent resurrection of Osiris (long enough for sister/wife Isis, in the form of a Kite, to conceive a child – the Falcon headed God Horus) is fascinating even if improbable! Do read about how she replaces his…um, family jewels in order to…um, facilitate the process.
Just as fascinating is the story of the Djed pillar, intrinsic to the same story! When the coffin containing Osiris runs aground in Byblos (Syria), there sprouts a sacred tree that is cut and used as a pillar by the local king.
That tree is considered the backbone of Osiris and a symbol of stability. The ceremony of raising the Djed - represented by a wood pillar – became a symbol of Osiris’s triumph over Set. Inscriptions abound, of the pharaoh raising the Djed Pillar with the help of priests and Gods! The resurrected Osiris earns himself the title of Lord of the Dead, and the afterlife. That is also the reason he is sometimes shown painted dark green!
The central region of our Milky Way is an extremely interesting and fascinating field of research. Within few light years we find here ten thousands of stars forming a dense cluster, and the geometric centre of our Galaxy harbours a supermassive black hole with around 3.6 million solar masses. Due to its relative proximity of around 8 kiloparsecs, the Galactic Centre is a perfect laboratory to examine the physical processes in a galactic nucleus.
Our primary goals are to uncover
~the physical properties of the central supermassive black hole
~when and where the stars were born
~the nature of these stars
~the dynamics in this region
Time resolved astrometry over a time span of now 17 years allows a description of the proper motions of the Galactic Centre stars. The observations clearly show, that some stars in the immediate vicinity of Sgr A* - i.e. in distances up to around 30 light days - move on Keplerian orbits around the central mass. From the shape of these orbits, the mass of Sgr A* and its distance from the Earth can be calculated.
The Djed: The 2012 Trilogy II [ THE DJED: THE 2012 TRILOGY II ] BY Galarneau, Peter, Jr. ( Author ) Hardcover on Dec-21-2009
Overview
"Now on a mission to find out what the professor was looking for in Sedona, the survivors from Port Aransas continue their journey, unknowing and in constant conflict with their own denials about the end of the world. Who can they really trust? What waits for them in Mexico? What do the X-Games and a pharmaceutical company have to do with Armageddon?"[Hardcover]
Meet the Author
Peter Galarneau, Jr., is the author of several published short stories, including "The Edge of Hell," "The Worms Within Us" and "Muldoon’s Nursery." He is a professor of public relations with concentrations in writing and media studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia. He has also authored and reviewed numerous academic publications.
After years of research surrounding the Mayan End Date of December 21, 2012, Galarneau, Jr. coupled his love and experience of horror fiction with this ancient mystery to create The 2012 Trilogy of which "The Cubit" is the first book. The second book in the trilogy, "The Djed," was published in hardcover on December 21, 2009.
The third book on the series has been divided into thirds. "0-Time: PUSH*" was released on December 21, 2010. "0-Time: Predicate" is scheduled for release in December 2011.
He lives with his wife and two cats within the comfort of the West Virginia hills.
Fulcanelli’s Final Revelation: Raising the Djed at the End of Time
By Vincent Bridges and Jay Weidner
Part One
Since A Monument to the End of Time first came out in the summer of 1999, we have been asked repeatedly if the world was going to end on the autumn equinox of 2002, the date described on the Cross at Hendaye. The answer is both yes and no, but probably not so as you’d notice as you lived through it.
[KEY BIT HERE!!!]
As our research on Monument continued, we came back to Giza to look at the ancient Egyptian science of becoming a light body or sentient star in the bardo or transition fields between Giza and the star birth area at the heart of Orion.
We noted the alignments to Orion and the summer solstice sunrise, but failed to heed our own strictures and look at Giza and its monuments in terms of the equinox 2002 Great Galactic Cross alignment. By focusing on Orion and the star birth aspects of the ancient Egyptian light body practices, we missed the clues we had already collected in terms of timing.
We noted that: “Giza’s monuments function as a cosmic clock, ticking off the ages through cyclical stellar alignments while establishing galactic scale resonance with the regions of star birth far off in Orion.” We did not understand, when the above was written, that the alarm on this cosmic clock was set to ring at dawn on the fall equinox of 2002.
Originally posted by Dustytoad
reply to post by KhufuKeplerTriangle
52,000 lightyears X 3.14 = circumfrence in light years x miles in a light year is distance traveled around galaxy in miles
5,878,499,810,000 miles X 52,000 X 3.14 / 226,000,000 years (d/t)
= 9.5984145 e+17 miles/ 226,000,000 years
= 4247086057.42 Miles/Year
= 4247086057.42/8760 = miles per hour
= 484,827 Miles/hour
Is this for real? The Solar system is moving at almost 500,000 miles per hour? Geez..edit on 10/24/2012 by Dustytoad because: (no reason given)
It turns out that our solar system is moving nearly 100,000 m.p.h. faster than previously thought — revolving around the center of the Milky Way at 568,000 m.p.h.
Originally posted by Dustytoad
reply to post by KhufuKeplerTriangle
52,000 lightyears X 3.14 = circumfrence in light years x miles in a light year is distance traveled around galaxy in miles
5,878,499,810,000 miles X 52,000 X 3.14 / 226,000,000 years (d/t)
= 9.5984145 e+17 miles/ 226,000,000 years
= 4247086057.42 Miles/Year
= 4247086057.42/8760 = miles per hour
= 484,827 Miles/hour
Is this for real? The Solar system is moving at almost 500,000 miles per hour? Geez..edit on 10/24/2012 by Dustytoad because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by KhufuKeplerTriangle
reply to post by Char-Lee
Oops, the image I put in must be kind of grainy.
The picture at top in blue shows what happens when Saturn aligns with the top axis of the Djed/Giza Pyramid and when the bottom of this axis aligns with Sagittarius A (between scorpio and sagittarius).
Sorry about that, I got carried away!
Here is a blog example (not mine) talking about what you asked.
Fulcanelli’s Final Revelation: Raising the Djed at the End of Time
By Vincent Bridges and Jay Weidner
Part One
Since A Monument to the End of Time first came out in the summer of 1999, we have been asked repeatedly if the world was going to end on the autumn equinox of 2002, the date described on the Cross at Hendaye. The answer is both yes and no, but probably not so as you’d notice as you lived through it.
[KEY BIT HERE!!!]
As our research on Monument continued, we came back to Giza to look at the ancient Egyptian science of becoming a light body or sentient star in the bardo or transition fields between Giza and the star birth area at the heart of Orion.
We noted the alignments to Orion and the summer solstice sunrise, but failed to heed our own strictures and look at Giza and its monuments in terms of the equinox 2002 Great Galactic Cross alignment. By focusing on Orion and the star birth aspects of the ancient Egyptian light body practices, we missed the clues we had already collected in terms of timing.
We noted that: “Giza’s monuments function as a cosmic clock, ticking off the ages through cyclical stellar alignments while establishing galactic scale resonance with the regions of star birth far off in Orion.” We did not understand, when the above was written, that the alarm on this cosmic clock was set to ring at dawn on the fall equinox of 2002.
"We noted the alignments to Orion and the summer solstice sunrise, but failed to heed our own strictures and look at Giza and its monuments in terms of the equinox 2002 Great Galactic Cross alignment. "
Isn't that kickass cool? LOL
"The stone that was rejected shall become the chief cornerstone"
Is this talking about Giza or Jesus or both?
The book "A Miracle in Stone" says that the erecting of that pyramid was supernaturally inspired.
Knuum Khufu halted traditional worship of the gods to build this monument to what he believed was the true god, the force that renews the universe.
However this might not be God. It might just be one of his tools.
Ourobouros.edit on 24-10-2012 by KhufuKeplerTriangle because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by artistpoet
The Ancient Egyptian Northern Stargate lays upon the Milky Way between Gemini and Taurus
And so Orion and Sirius which lay between the two
Stargate’s were not considered like some Buck Rogers technology - they were associate with the soul
But such things are Hermetically sealed until the penny drops so to speak.
So as the Sun rises against the background stars of Aquarius it is opposite the stars of Leo
By Midday It will have risen to be against Taurus and opposite Scorpio
Aquarius Leo Taurus and Scorpio are the 4 fixed constellations -
They are the stars of Zep Tepi known as The First Time
A marker in the precession of the stars or cycle
But all this is just scratching the surface of Ancient Knowledge regarding the soul
So too Isis and Horus Osiris and Set - were they real - Yes - they still are - they are natural laws and apply to all
Discerned they will tell you of the Cosmos and Humanity's place there in - something NASA never will.