Spirals?

Here are the contents of the scrolls, formatted into a compact presentation. Our previous work with Vega in the Tessaract path has us trained up for this (although Roger does NOT assure us that these times are GMT!)

I've included here the scrolls pulled down to the bottom, so you can see the slightly different format the middle entries have, compared to how I placed them in the report - just in case that could make a difference in interpretation. I assume that Vega's "007:44" time is just playful rhyming with James Bond, since the other similar time occurrence is given the full "0008:56" representation.

Time to get your nautical almanacs out - or you can go to the online almanac for many entries:

http :// www tecepe com br / scripts / AlmanacPagesISAPI dll

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Google Earth Pro does a fine job of letting us plan out plotting these positions (the downloaded version does much better at handling all these points - and it's FREE!!!). Would putting this plot on a Mercator projection make a better clue? Does anyone have a software suggestion for that?

I have taken the 'descending' series first, because it is relatively well behaved. Although the ending points may be wandering from the apparently indicated spiral. Does it matter that the last 2 stars are referred to with their scientific catalog names (the "Bayer designation"), and not an Arabic one? Castor is oddly named too, since it comes from the Greek tradition - but the Arabic name was several words long, and not commonly used now. We might want to refer to the older, mostly-Arabic naming convention as the "Renaissance designation".

You will notice on closer inspection, that Beta Andromeda is also known as Mirach - that name is used elsewhere in these lists. Gamma Andromeda also has the common name Almach. GA does appear again in this game list, but always as GA - so appearing twice is not why names are alternated.

We will continue to plot the other two data sets next time, and examine what we can make of the clues we have.