- Fantastic Planet (Wikipedia)
Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage; Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. ‘The Wild Planet’) is a 1973 French-language experimental independent adult animated science fiction art film, directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor, the latter of whom also completed the film’s production design. The film was animated at Jiří Trnka Studio in Prague. The film was an international co-production between companies from France and Czechoslovakia. The allegorical story, about humans living on a strange planet dominated by giant humanoid aliens who consider them animals, is based on the 1957 novel Oms en série by French writer Stefan Wul.
- Beta Trianguli Australis (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
BETA TRA (Beta Trianguli Australis). While not a dramatic star, third magnitude (2.85) Beta TrA, the number two star of Triangulum Australe, the Southern Triangle, is still so bright – well in the top 150 – that it surely deserves recognition, especially since TrA itself is a nice, bright constellation.
- Beta Trianguli Australis (Wikipedia)
Beta Trianguli Australis, Latinized from β Trianguli Australis, is a double star in the southern constellation of Triangulum Australe. It is approximately 40.37 light-years (12.38 parsecs) from Earth and has an apparent visual magnitude of +2.85. This star has a relatively high rate of proper motion across the celestial sphere. It is a F-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of F1 V. Beta TrA has a 14th magnitude optical companion at an angular separation of 155 arcseconds.
