A lot of the published trigonometric parallaxes on stars beyond 30 light-years are not as accurate as they could be, according to Kyle Cudworth of Yerkes Observatory. But right now these life forms are simply fantasy we have no evidence that they are in fact possible. Haedus II 02 35 100 05 18 The nearest star to the Earth with an exoplanet is HD 21693, about 105.62 light-years. Castra (See above. Taurus 240 Morse, The Living Stars, 1988. 29 50, 00 29 06 43 Sadalsuud Zeta 1 would have long ago been the focus of religions, mythology and astrology if it were in earthly skies. 09 14 26 10, 00 00 (Today, K-type star stability is seen as a boon, rather than a hinderance, for their habitability.). Houlding, Heavenly Imprints: Development of the Zodiac, 2003. Your beginner astrology chart is included: SEE EXAMPLE. Aldebaran You need to move the planets in your horoscope forward to catch up with the positions of the stars for 2000. For two reasons, then, we eliminate stars of class F4 and above: (1) most of them rotate rapidly and thus seem to be planetless, and (2) their stable lifespans are too brief for advanced life to develop. Acubens Camelopardalis From the southern hemisphere the pair can be seen with the naked eye as a double star in very dark skies. 240 Fomalhaut A professor of plant physiology, his biology expertise has been turned to astronomy on several occasions while studying the possibility of biological organisms existing on Mars. Although the Hills didn't, several people have lost their jobs after being associated with similarly unusual publicity. Zeta 2 is about 99% the mass and 99% the radius of the Sun. Almach Hyginus, Astronomica, @ 10 AD. Zeta Reticuli, on the other hand, is believed to be a mere 39 light years from Earth. Someday, perhaps soon, we will know. 130 Dole feels this is cutting it too fine for intelligent species to fully evolve. 11 19 Achernar This hypothesis is based on a strange, almost bizarre series of events mixing astronomical research with hypnosis, amnesia, and alien humanoid creatures. Long ago our satellite stopped rotating and now has one side permanently turned toward Earth. Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, @ 160 AD. Rukbat Kaus Borealis Two things happened from this absurd tale. Admittedly this is based on our one example of intelligent life us. 210 The Zeta Reticuli System contained two yellow dwarf stars, designated Zeta1 Reticuli and Zeta2 Reticuli, and was located at a distance of roughly 39.16 light-years (12.01 parsecs) Trailward from the Sol System. Vertex But northeast is a bonanza: Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, and more. The fact . But we may be wrong in our estimate of life development time. 16 09 Perseus Zeta Reticuli: facts about the binary star sytem. The fact that the entire incident hinges on a map drawn under less than normal circumstances certainly keeps us from drawing a firm conclusion. Marjorie Fish reasoned that if the stars in the Hill map corresponded to a pattern of real stars perhaps something like we just developed, only from an aliens viewpoint it might be possible to pinpoint the origin of the alleged space travelers. 29 29, 02 18 22 27 07 27 The plot of all 46 candidate stars reveals a clumping in the direction of the constellations Cetus and Eridanus. She noted no grid lines on the pattern for reference. 18 34 12 44 Anyway that's where things were in 1966 when Marjorie Fish, an Ohio schoolteacher, amateur astronomer and member of Mensa, became involved. Thuban He believes the Gliese catalog "is the most complete and comprehensive source available". She doesn't know, so the subject is dropped. [4] Most stars will evolve above this curve as they age. Second, it nearly ruined the reputation of this young astronomy magazine. The faintest, coolest, and least massive are the M stars. 09 56 130 20 14 It won't happen to the sun for six billion years. While we at BBC Sky at Night Magazine don't pay much heed to tales of alien abductions that have come to the fore since the 1960s (in fact, we do recommend a read of our list of things commonly mistaken for UFOs), it is at least a curious chapter in the Zeta Reticuli story and an explanation as to why many people outside of practical astronomy are interested in the stellar system. 07 32 200 Polis The couple continue their journey home oblivious of the abduction. [21], Both stars were considered unusual because they were thought to have had a lower luminosity than is normal for main-sequence stars of their age and surface temperature. 140 The flares have the same intensity as those of our sun, but when you put that type of flare on a little star it spells disaster for a planet that is within, say, 30 million miles. (Umm, no.) If Jupiter was 80 times more massive it would be an M6 red dwarf star. At the other end of the size and brightness scale the white dwarfs are stellar cinders the remains of once brilliant suns. Under an aggressive exterior, the natives have a deeply nurturing quality and have great capacities to support others. The two stars, Zeta 1 (1) Reticuli and Zeta 2 (2) Reticuli are located just over 39 lightyears from Earth and are separated from each other by a distance of at least 3,750 Astronomical Units (AU), where 1 AU is the average distance between Earth and the Sun. The most likely possibilities seem to be: (a) the experience actually happened, or (b) some perceptive and illusory misinterpretations occurred in relationship to some real event. Stars of class F4 or higher have stable burning periods of less than 3.5 billion years. 220 19 22 100 08 18 14 18 In these observations, no significant flux has been detected around 2, showing that the alleged debris disk is not real, but rather a case of background confusion. Salisbury insists that while psychological factors do play an important role in UFO phenomena, the Hill story does represent one of the most credible reports of incredible events. Delphinus The penalty is a short lifespan as a main sequence star. It is a yellow main sequence star of class G3 with a magnitude or brightness of +5.52 (for more on this, read our guide to stellar spectral classifications and stellar magnitude). Prior to 1969, the data could only have been obtained from the observatories conducting research on the specific stars in question. In essence, then, we assume their home planet must be very Earthlike. Im going to run this for Halloween, I told our mild mannered senior editor Rich Talcott. In a book titled Alien Abduction?, however, images of several Zeta Reticulans wearing light blue clothing with silver trimming were depicted. In 2005, members of the Defense Intelligence Agency came forward to reveal the operation, including details from the 3,000-page debriefing of the seven members of the Serpo team who returned. 140, 200 Bailey, Alice A., Esoteric Psychology Volume I, 1962 Look it up now! 21 57 200, Arabic Lunar Manions There are other cases of alleged abductions by extraterrestrial humanoids. Bootes Capella Lower image shows a cathode ray tube computer readout that was run at Ohio State University as a check on the Fish model. Alwaid 230 Fixed Stars in Medical Astrology Virgo. Ras Elased Bor. Such stars cannot have life-bearing planets because, at least based on our experience on our world, this is not enough time to permit highly developed biological systems to evolve on the land areas of a planet. 22 24 120 The conclusion we can draw is this: The star has to be like the sun. 140 In the December 1974 issue of Astronomy, the then-editors published a lead feature story titled The Zeta Reticuli Incident.The well-known astronomy popularizer Terence Dickinson, then Astronomys Editor, penned the article. Keeping all this in mind, Marjorie Fish constructed several three-dimensional models of the solar neighborhood in hopes of detecting the pattern in the Hill map. Ridpath, Star Tales, 1988. 200 27 51 240 The observations demonstrate the need to follow up Herschel observations of debris disks.[29]. 2 Reticuli is slightly brighter at magnitude 5.22. Its pretty obvious that Tau Ceti is our first target. They requested the computer to put them in a position out beyond Zeta Reticuli looking toward the sun. Algorab For the moment we will leave Marjorie Fish back in 1969 trying to interpret Betty Hill's reproduction of the map. 23 16 "I was able to locate potential areas of error, but no real errors," Steggert concludes. 130 Our sun could have been part of a double star system. In Vedic astrology, the degrees of 26 Aries to 10 Taurus are ruled by the Krittika, or Pleiades. "By no stretch of the imagination could anyone who knows them conclude that they were nuts," he emphasizes. Zeta Reticuli is a wide binary star system in the southern constellation of Reticulum. The only answer is to continue the search. But for some reason he turns down a side road where five Of the humanoids are standing on the road. Its a good tale of hokum that went awry. George, Parker, Fixed Star Health and Behavior Imbalances, 1985. [23] Although the kinematics of this system suggest that they belong to a population of older stars, the properties of their stellar chromospheres suggests that they are only about 2 billion years old. Under an aggressive exterior, the natives have a deeply nurturing quality and have great capacities to support others. [13] Subsequently, the two stars received separate designations in the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung, which was processed between 1859 and 1903, then in the Henry Draper Catalogue, published between 1918 and 1924. 230 Kaulins, Stars, Stones and Scholars, 2003. 130 She was standing about three feet away from it. 27 10 09 46 Italian translation by Giuseppe Bezza from CCAG V/1 pp. Its a solid truth. It seems unlikely. In the late 1960s Marjorie Fish (a teacher) supposedly succeeded in correlating Hill's star map with real stars associated with Zeta Reticuli, this proving Hill had been on a ship from Zeta Reticuli. (Majorie Fish later repudiated her findings prior to her death in 2013. Betty, a social worker, asks advice from a psychiatrist friend. Based upon parallax measurements, this system is located at a distance of about 39 light-years (12 parsecs) from the Earth. Because the stars are similar to our Sun, if an Earth-like planet were in orbit around the stars at the right distance, liquid water might be able to pool on that planet's surface, and the conditions might be right for life as we know it to flourish. Ascella 140 07 47 Under hypnosis, Betty and Barney began to relay their story, which detailed their abduction onboard a strange spacecraft and conversations with non-human lifeforms. Iain Todd is BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Content Editor. 140 Ara Enjoy those pumpkins. The Sun is at the end of one of the supposedly regular trade routes. This article chronicles how an unusual star map has led to new investigations of specific nearby stars that might harbor Earth-like planets - and possibly advanced forms of life. 12 18 23 13 Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist and the nation's only space scientist devoting full time to researching the UFO phenomenon, has spent many hours in conversation with the Hills. ), What stars are left after all this pruning? Dabih Native American Pleiades Myths Orion 100 19 26 (Earth-sized planets cannot be detected in this manner. Piscis Austrinus June 6, 1933 10:23 PM Chiron enters Gemini. Auriga Zubenelgenubi 23 28 It had seemingly been detected due to observations of the star's wobble (which can often be attributed to the gravitational pull of a planet in orbit around a star), but this was eventually retracted. 130 It seems, from recent studies of stellar evolution that slowly rotating stars like the sun rotate slowly because they have planets. But then, we don't even know for certain if there is anybody at all out there anywhere -despite the Hill map and pronouncements of the most respected scientists. 130 Phact Aquila (Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri are currently tantalyzing targets, although only one planet has been confirmed in the triple star system.) Home / Fixed Stars / Reticulum Constellation Stars, In astrology, Reticulum gives a restricted life, self-absorption, tenacity, selfishness and emotion. Didnt he delineate and name Mensa (= Table Mountain)? 100 But the bright stars pay dearly for their splendor. Phoenix 22 10 Khambalia The Reticuli are the primary group instigating abductions (or more accurately called "temporary detainments" since this group always returns the abductee). But after several years the magazines fortunes recovered and by 1980, the time of the Voyager flybys, Astronomy became the worlds most widely read publication on the subject. 130 26 56 Marjorie Fish wrote a letter to Betty Hill dated October 7, 1972 source University of New Hampshire State archives), and she draws her Zeta Reticuli Interpretation set to Betty Hill's star map. (Many models maintain that there could be a crescent of hability or have enough atmospheric movement to distribute heat around the planet like Hadley cells on Earth.) 130 140 First, it sold lots . Agena There was no concentration of stars to indicate the Milky Way ( galactic plane) suggesting that if it represented reality, it probably only contained local stars. Indeed, one M star known as Barnards Star is believed to almost certainly have at least one, and probably two or three, Jupiter-sized planets. Centaurus Or would the pattern become distorted? Vega 25 44 05 20 13 25 Don Dixon. Retrograde motion lessens the effect of fixed stars. Would they give a closer fit? Cassiopeia But eventually (around the time the Contact movie came out) I wised up and realized the real hunt for life on other worlds wouldnt come from the sky in cigar shaped flying spheres or in the middle of the night through a light in the window. I wasnt around on Astronomys staff in the 1970s. 210 13 51 The spectral class letters are part of a system of stellar "fingerprinting" that identifies the main sequence star's temperature and gives clues to its mass and luminosity. Canes Venatici The inclination of this orbit will carry the stars as much as 1.3kly (0.4kpc) from the plane of the galactic disk. 100 Ensis I was incredulous that models could be used to do an astronometric problem," Steggert says. A long-term activity cycle of ~4.2years has been tentatively identified. 200 Mackey, The Original Design of the Ancient Zodiacal and Extrazodiacal Constellations, 1834. 130 140 But limited though this parameter is, it is the only one we have. Dec 22, 1933 2:38 AM Chiron Rx enters Taurus. The Zeta Reticuli Greys that we will refer to as type A's are one of the more common Greys reported. Eridanus 01 47 Zeta Reticuli is a wide binary system composed of two yellow G-class stars, both of which have a visual magnitude of 5.22. Ancha One born under the influences of the sisters is said to be fiery, warlike, and adventurous. Manilius, Astronomica, @ 50 AD. 21 26 26 49 [1], Riculum Rhomboidalis, the Rhomboidal Net, is generally supposed to be of La Cailles formation as a memorial of the reticle which he used in making his celebrated southern observations; but it was first drawn by Isaak Habrecht, of Strassburg, as the Rhombus, and so probably only adopted by its reputed inventor. 210 100 El Nath Zeta Reticuli, Latinized from Reticuli, is a wide binary star system in the southern constellation of Reticulum. 200 The Zeta Reticuli system consists of two yellow main sequence stars of the spectral types G3-5V and G2V. Heres the thing: I used to be obsessed with UFOs. 140, 100 200, 200 130 Zaurak ), The 16 stars in the stellar configuration discovered by Marjorie Fish are compared with the map drawn by Betty Hill in the diagram on page 7. Betty later drew an astronomical map of sorts - which has since become known as the Betty Hill star map - that she had purportedly seen aboard the spacecraft, and which is claimed by some as showing that the aliens in question originated from the Zeta Reticuli star system. Betty did not shift her position while viewing it, so we cannot tell if it would give the same three-dimensional view from all positions or if it would be completely three-dimensional. When they eventually arrived home, the Hills' journey had taken a few hours longer than it should have, and they had sustained minor injuries and cuts and scuffs on their clothing and shoes. 16 37 Still, it fascinates us. Robson, Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, 1923. HIP 18598, Reticulum's Furthest Star Did this incredible contact with aliens actually occur or is it some kind of hallucination that affected both Barney and Betty Hill? 220 08 28 [5] This likely puts them outside the thick disk population of stars. Most habitable zone planets discovered so far have been short period planets around M-dwarfs.) Some otherwise perfect stars are labeled "variable". Or black holes.) 200 Are there creatures inhabiting a planet of Zeta 2 Reticuli? Canopus Foramen Grey aliens, also referred to as Zeta Reticulans, Roswell Greys, or Grays, are purported extraterrestrial beings. 06 57 210 After the sun sets on Utah's alpine mountains or red rock, the visual splendor continues in the form of star-filled night skies and a light show compliments of Mother Nature. Mesarthim The first rule will be to restrict ourselves to life as we know it, the kind of life that we are familiar with here on Earth carbon-based life. Based on the star's spectral type (G2V), Zeta Reticuli's colour is yellow. 130 100 Any interpretation of the Betty Hill map must retain the logic of these routes (i.e. These other 2/3 of the bulk of the star system are only evident by the . There is evidence for a debris disk that may be an asteroid belt.). 230 Cursa (Most of Van de Kamps later career was spent fighting back against those who said hed determined the Barnards Star planets in error. 03 53 130 22 35 "In most fields of investigation where similar statistical methods are usod, that degree of congruence is rather persuasive," concludes Saunders. A Boston psychiatrist, Benjamin Simon, is recommended, and after several months of weekly hypnosis sessions the bizarre events of that night in 1961 are revealed. In 1996, astronomers announced the potential presence of a so-called 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet - a gas giant similar to Jupiter but much closer to its star than Jupiter is to the Sun - in orbit around Zeta 2. 100 Dheneb This radiation was attributed to emission by a debris disk with a mean temperature of 150K (123C), theorized to be orbiting the host star at a distance of 4.3AU. 14 05 Octans 240 Fixed Stars For Astrologers Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis, 4th Century AD. Ursa Major 28 45 We don't want to waste our time and efforts we only want to go to stars that we would think would have a high probability of having planets harboring advanced life forms. Or perhaps a tiny cloth to polish the lens?? The close-in orbits of potential Earth-like planets of M and faint K stars produce the second dilemma rotational lock. One would also wonder what Betty, who has a master's degree in social work and is a supervisor in the New Hampshire Welfare Department, and Barney, who was on the governor of New Hampshire's Civil Rights Commission, would have to gain by a hoax? Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis, 4th Century AD. 08 01 08 52 With all these facts at hand we're now ready to tackle the first part of the detective story. Alpheratz Cor Caroli 04 31 100 Fish's account of that meeting: "On Aug. 4, 1969, Betty Hill discussed the star map with me. 150 The other 2/3 are composed of stars not visible to you, on Earth, but nevertheless affecting the gravitational pull of the other stars and planets in the system. Alderamin [4] They are currently following an orbit through the Milky Way galaxy that has an eccentricity of 0.24. They have to be ruled out immediately. Accepting Doles further trimming, we are left with single, non-variable stars from F8 through all the Gs to K1? (These stars can last on a scale of trillions of years though they may soon fade into blue dwarfs, none of which exist yet.) Zeta 1 Reticuli has a mass equal to about 96% that of the Sun, and a radius about 92% of the Sun. Fum al Samakah These slender aliens are light and almost delicate looking are are always . Asterion Terebellum, Albireo 20 57 He was a clergyman, so maybe he kept his rosary beads there? If the stars of a double system are far enough apart there is no real problem for planets sustaining life ( see "Planet of the Double Sun", September 1974). 110 The rest, as they say, is history (Nancy Lieder went on to channel the Zetas about how Planet X would factor into the great cataclysm we all . And its star is the only thing we can study since planets of other stars are far too faint to detect directly. Corona Borealis Light-year (abbreviated as LY ) stands for the distance that light travels in a year (at the speed of about 300,000 km/sec). One significant fact against a charade is that the data from the Gliese catalog was not published until 1969, five years after the star map was drawn by Betty Hill. 13 38 The problem is that planets have to be that close to get enough heat from these feeble suns. ), Three key phases in the analysis described in this article are illustrated here. 140 Mark Steggert of the Space Research Coordination Center at the University of Pittsburgh developed a computer program that he calls PAR (for Perspective Alteration Routine ) that call duplicate the appearance of star fields from various viewpoints in space. In dark southern skies, the two stars can be viewed separately with the naked eye, or with a pair of binoculars. There is none better." 240 We would want to include every star that would seem likely to have a life-bearing planet orbiting around it. In general, the entire sequence of events just does not smell of falsification. Center map is derived from a model of our stellar neighborhood by Marjorie Fish. Seginus Retrograde motion lessens the effect of fixed stars. This point of view is shared by Jeffrey L. Kretsch, an undergraduate student who is working under the advisement of J. Allen Hynek at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Like Steggert, he too checked Marjorie Fish's pattern and found no error in the work. Aquarius (No planets have been discovered around either star. 210 230 He walks into a field to get a closer look, focuses the binoculars, and sees the object plainly. The unique aspect of the Hills' abduction is that they remembered virtually nothing of the incident. The Zeta Reticuli System (Zeta Ret, Reticuli, Ret) was a binary star system located on the Frontier in the Reticulum Constellation. Sabik Yohan Midhelf says on his book that this star is situated on the 2nd pada of Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra and the website Constellation of Words confirms it by saying that this star is situated on degree 21 of tropical Pisces (Neptunes actual transiting place by the way, which could perfectly explain such mess). Zeta Reticuli is a binary star system that can be found in the constellation of Reticulum and is visible in the night sky from the southern hemisphere. While driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the couple say they were followed by an unusual light in the sky, and that they were able to use binoculars to observe that the strange light was in fact a flying spacecraft, and they could observe non-human lifeforms through the craft's windows. Smaller planets around Neptune mass or below are still possible.). There is a particularly brilliant analysis of this story available on the Armagh Planetarium website, courtesy of its Science Education Director Colin Johnston. 110 Deneb Algedi, Enif Labrum Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, 1928. Bellatrix Her wild enthusiasm for her newest Star Map creation is obvious, and she writes the time of the letter as 3:30 am. 1 has 96% of the Sun's mass and 84% of the Sun's radius. Mintaka They concur with Simon's belief that there seems to be no evidence of outright fabrication or lying. Zaniah [14], The double star Reticuli is located in the western part of the small Reticulum constellation, about 25 from the constellation's border with Horologium. 140 Science fiction writers are fond of describing life forms based on chemical systems that we have been unable to duplicate here on Earth such as silicon based life or life based on the ammonium hydroxide molecule instead of on carbon. He says the catalog was compiled with extensive research and care over many years. Until I realized that it was a small attachment, presumably of the eyepiece of the telescope, I wondered why La Caille would want to immortalize it, and WHY the rhomboid shape?? 22 59 Noctua Of course Zeta Reticuli exists. The only area of significant incongruity is the wide separation of Zeta Reticuli in the Hill version. It represents the reticle, a net of cross-hairs at the focus of a telescope eyepiece used to measure star positions. 22 05 01 31 Each class is subdivided into 10 subcategories. One star that should be there ( Zeta Tucanae ) is missing probably because it is behind Zeta 1 Reticuli at the required viewing angle. The stars are gravitationally bound and located approximately 39 light years from the solar system. But the main ingredient in a life-bearing planet is its star. Unfortunately this means that the Zeta Reticuli binary pair cannot be seen from the UK, but it's certainly worth seeking out if you find yourself under the southern hemisphere sky looking for celestial objects that would otherwise be out of range. The purpose of the trip will be to search for intelligent life on planets that may be in orbit around these stars. 24 34 Zubeneschamali 25 08 The mintaka starseed's astrological sign is Pisces (astrology) and Aquarius (star system origin). 130 Mira The interesting aspect of the Betty and Barney Hill case is that it wasn't initially their intention for their tale to be made public, but also that they were intelligent and respected members of both their community and also of the Civil Rights movement at the time. "The odds are about 10,000 to 1 against a random configuration matching perfectly with Betty Hill's map," Saunders reports. Leo The method of their release supposedly accounted for the amnesia, which was apparently broken only by counterhypnosis.". [11] Two possible explanations are: during the star's formation it underwent multiple intense bursts of mass accretion from a rapidly rotating protostellar cloud, or else the star underwent rotational mixing brought on by a period of rapid rotation during the star's youth. nanda i classification,

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