Observed Arcturus on July 31, 2022 from Bothell, Washington
- July 31, 2022. With a distance of 36.7 ± 0.2 light years, the light tonight left Arcturus between August 1985 and February 1986. The world population was about 4.8 billion. In August, Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed in Japan and became the worst single-aircraft disaster in history. The Titanic was discovered. In September Super Mario Bros. was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Later that year the the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted, killing an estimated 23,000 people, and in December Dian Fossey is found murdered.
- Crux (Wikipedia)
Crux (/krʌks/) is a constellation of the southern sky that is centred on four bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism commonly known as the Southern Cross. It lies on the southern end of the Milky Way’s visible band. The name Crux is Latin for cross. Even though it is the smallest of all 88 modern constellations, Crux is among the most easily distinguished as its four main stars each have an apparent visual magnitude brighter than +2.8. It has attained a high level of cultural significance in many Southern Hemisphere states and nations.
