what we see in the stars by kelsey oseid

With so much interest in the stars these days, I suspect your sprogs will find this book a useful way to glean information, especially for the various meteor showers. I did wonder why she left out the asteroid belt but it comes up in a separate section. It’s interesting seeing some stars with their common name like Sirius and its other name Alpha Canis Majoris and Antares aka Alpha Scorpil.Īll the zodiac constellations lie around the equator and it wasn’t until 1930 when there were so many other constellations being observed that it was decided to create an official map of the skies and so there are a lot more new names and the International Astronomical Union added another 38 but this time based on people, scientific equipment and animals.įrom stars, Oseid does a similar treatment of the planets. Ptolemy only put them in groups because they stayed that way relative to Earth. I did wish she’d had gone into the relative distances between the stars in their constellations as well showing that they weren’t really that close. Very occasionally, she will give some distances of the nearest stars. If you want to befuddle astrologers, ask them why the thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, never figures in their ‘calculations’ and ‘forecasts’.įor each of the original constellations, Oseid gives an account of their mythological backgrounds and what is really there and significant stars.

What we have here is a short history of the skies and how it was down to one person, Claudius Ptolemy who was making sense of the night sky who named the star constellations that rotate over the Earth and hence all Greek sourced words often portraying Greek mythology. The design and text does tend to suggest a teen audience. I’m not entirely sure who the target audience is for illustrator/writer Kelsey Oseid’s book, ‘What We See In The Stars’.

What we see in the stars by kelsey oseid