Orion followed us home last night from Tyneside - coming into glory whilst re-crossing the Pennines on the A68/A685 in between snow clouds & blizzards but we stopped the car a few miles west of Kirky Stephen for a good look. Living in the towns & rural fringes you get very little of what's up there. Even last night I suppose we only got 40% at best - no Milky Way for example, but the nebula was pretty clear. I remember one time doing a gig up at Kielder Castle and going outside for a fag; a sky so full of stars I could barely make out familiar constellations and the Milky Way a sparkling dream. Mindblowing. So much we're missing with light pollution so hardly the wonder WAV's Orion looks a bit threadbare - it's probably all he can see through the yellow glow of the Tyneside conurbation.

Some believe Orion's Belt (the three stars visible even in WAV's diagram) to have influenced the placing of the three main pyramids on the Giza plateau. Seeing them in relation to the Milky Way one might be tempted to agree given the pyramids' relation to the Nile But long before that, the Thornborough Henges in Yorkshire were layed out in a similar fashion...   

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