Arcturus
Arcturus (/ɑːrkˈtjʊərəs/; α Boo, α Boötis, Alpha Boötis) of the constellation Boötes is the brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. With a visual magnitude of −0.05, it is the fourth brightest star in the night sky, after −1.46 magnitude Sirius, −0.86 magnitude Canopus, and −0.27 magnitude Alpha Centauri. It is a relatively close star at only 36.7 light-years from Earth, and, together with Vega and Sirius, one of the most luminous stars in the Sun's neighborhood.
Arcturus is a type K0 III orange giant star, with an absolute magnitude of −0.30. It has likely exhausted its hydrogen from its core and is now in its active hydrogen shell burning phase. It will continue to expand before entering horizontal branch stage of its life cycle.
Observational history
As one of the brightest stars in the sky, Arcturus has been significant to observers since antiquity. In Mesopotamia, it was linked to the god Enlil, and also known as Shudun, "yoke", or SHU-PA of unknown derivation in the Three Stars Each Babylonian star catalogues and later MUL.APIN around 1100 BC.
Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The series is set in a fictionalised version of the Milky Way galaxy and thus, while most locations are pure invention, many are based on "real world" settings such as Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star and various versions of the Earth.
The Galaxy
"The Galaxy" is our home galaxy, the Milky Way, though it is referred to exclusively as "the Galaxy" in the series. Apart from a very brief moment during the first radio series, when the main characters were transported outside the galactic plane into a battle with Haggunenons, and a moment when one of Arthur's careless remarks is sent inadvertently through a wormhole into "a distant galaxy", the Galaxy provides the setting for the entire series. It is home to thousands of sentient races, some of whom have achieved interstellar capability, creating a vast network of trade, military and political links. To the technologically advanced inhabitants of the Galaxy, a small, insignificant world such as Earth is considered invariably primitive and backward. The Galaxy appears, at least nominally, to be a single state, with a unified government "run" by an appointed President. Its immensely powerful and monumentally callous civil service is run out of the Megabrantis Cluster, mainly by the Vogons.
Arcturus (steamship)
SS Arcturus was a passenger ship of the Finland Steamship Company operating primarily on the route between Hanko, Finland and Hull, England via Copenhagen, Denmark. Built in 1898 by Gourlay Brothers shipyard in Dundee, Scotland, the Arcturus remained in service until 1956. In its earlier years it was one of the primary ships that Finnish emigrants sailed on when heading to North America. After disembarking at Hull, such emigrants would typically take a train to Liverpool before boarding a transatlantic liner.
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Arcturus
ALBUMS
- Aspera Hiems Symfonia released: 2012
- Shipwrecked in Oslo released: 2006
- Sideshow Symphonies released: 2005
- Aspera Hiems Symfonia / Constellation / My Angel released: 2003
- The Sham Mirrors released: 2002
- La masquerade infernale / Disguised Masters, Volume 1 released: 1999
- Disguised Masters released: 1999
- La Masquerade Infernale released: 1997
- 2005-03-25: Inferno Festival, Oslo, Norway released:
- 2003-05-02: Southern Discomfort Festival, Kristiansand, Norway released:
Shipwrecked in Oslo
Released 2006- Introduction
- Ad Absurdum
- Nightmare Heaven
- Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
- Alone
- Deception Genesis
- Chaos Path
- Tore Guitar Solo
- Deamon Painter
- Nocturnal Vision Revisited
- Painting My Horror
- Steinar Keyboard Solo
- Hufsa
- Master of Disguise
- Knut Guitar Solo
- White Noise Monster
- Reflections
- Raudt Og Svart
- Credits
Disguised Masters
Released 1999- White Tie Black Noise (designed by When for Arcturus)
- Deception Genesis
- Du Nordavind (1998 re-recording)
- Alone (Intellecto & Valle darktrip)
- The Throne of Tragedy (Phantom FX jungle remix)
- La Masquerade Infernale (Valle & Hellhammer reconstruction)
- Master of Disguise (Phantom FX remix with gangstafications by S.C.N.)
- Painting My Horror (G. Wolf levitation mix)
- Ad Astra (the Magenta experience)
- Ad Astra (ensemble version)
Died: 2007-04-17
Arc-turus
ALBUMS
- クラウチングスタート released: 2004
Arcturus
ALBUMS
- Order Odonata, Volume 1 released: 1994
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Nightmare Heaven
by: ArcturusThe subjects of sleep
Their faces once awake
On sodomy and death
And smoke and laughter
Their feet no longer
Underground
The snow hides the traces
Never set in a first place
This negative kingdom
Hey horrible and white
The angels all stone
Passing their years
Hoping to be saved
From oblivion
...by oblivion
And the miracle is that
Nothing has happened
Nothing has a history
Or a name
Only the voice
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