Mars the star of venus?

[Taffy Wake]

hi dee hi,

whilst gazing at our magnificent mars the other day, a buddy commented that it was called the star of venus and is always in the sky and is always the brightest 'star' in the sky.

being astronomically austistic i hardly demurred. can you set us straight?


ta.

[thed]

I think you friend is a little confused.

Mars it not the 'Star of Venus', it is Mars, simple as that. The planet Venus is usually one of the brightest objects in the sky. In fact, is currently brighter than Mars. Nor is Mars always visible, their are periods where it is not visible during the night as it is in the daytime sky, so to speak.

If you want to know why I suggest you have a look at http://www.heavens-above.com. If you want to know more about our Solar System in general try http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

[Taffy Wake]

thanks thed. i'll give my pal the appropriate education poste haste.

it was interesting.... i've never heard something called 'the star of' anything before....ie 'the star of sirius'(it sounds like a cruise ship to me). that is what threw me, i thought there might be a bunch of people for some kind of folkloric reasons that thought mars was venus' star.

are any stars named for their relationship to a planet eg star of earth?
:confused:

t

[Zarkov]

Hi Taffy pedant... Venus is often soooo bright it rivals the brightest stars... so why shouldn't it be call the star called venus !!! Go Taffy

PS scroll down a liitle in this stream, see Electrodynamic Spin Gravity....

:)

[thed]

Originally posted by Taffy Wake
it was interesting.... i've never heard something called 'the star of' anything before....ie 'the star of sirius'(it sounds like a cruise ship to me). that is what threw me, i thought there might be a bunch of people for some kind of folkloric reasons that thought mars was venus' star.

The names of the Stars, and Planets, are actually based on Folklore. But Greek, Roman and Arabic folklore mostly.

are any stars named for their relationship to a planet eg star of earth?

In short, no, but if you want to know more about the names and meanings of Star names have a read of,

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/ and
http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/starnames/

It's a fascinating topic, to me.

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Edited to add http://users.macunlimited.net/ianrid/startales/startales1a as an excellent resource

[Taffy Wake]

wonderful names thed.
many thanks for the sites.
a lot of them sound like ancient vulgarities...woo hoo to them, i'm going to start trying to incorporate them in to my daily conversations...

i'll have to get my alderamin out of my menkab before i break my grumium.

well, i smell like a camel's ascella so i'd better go and have a shower and pay special attention to my glistening, moist merak and heaving succulent shedir...always being careful to keep my precious aludra intactus.

chara,
t


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