STARing the sky in the face: Recognizing the constellations in a sky which does not have any
Date Issued
2017
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Abstract
The analysis described here attempts to estimate the range within which we use our tendency to see a familiar shape in a disordered pattern (Pareidolia). The study starts with the proof that the stars visible to the naked eye are arranged following a Poisson distribution, a concept that I use to understand why, in the works of several artists, the stars appear so clustered that they form an excess in the number of possible constellations. This analysis should be considered only preliminary and will be completed soon by further investigation which I describe at the end of this paper.
Coverage
The Light, The Stones and The Sacred
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Orlando, Andrea
Volume
48
Start page
221
Conferenece
XVth Italian Society of Archaeoastronomy Congress
Conferenece place
Catania
Conferenece date
11-12 Settembre 2015
Issn Identifier
1570-6591
Rights
open.access
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