Crab Nebula

War Arrow · Post by **War Arrow** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:59 am

From ye news codex of these partes:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoverie ... ntech_0704

The Chinese weren't the only ones to make an early sighting: Astronomers in the Arab world provided their own accounts, and archeological evidence found in North America suggests that Indian sky watchers also recorded the supernova.

Ring any bells with anyone? I've had a quick pog at my Mexican records but 1054 seems to have been a pretty uneventful year.

gunny · Post by **gunny** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:50 am

Duly noted in China, and Williamwas sharpening his sword for 1066.

Mayonaze · Post by **Mayonaze** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:21 am

Many references to possible sitings in N America through Google

http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/sep252001/701.pdf

http://www.delange.org/M1/M1.htm

http://archaeology.about.com/od/poetry/a/paul_young.htm

http://www.crystalinks.com/pyrnorthamerica.html
Do a “find” for 1054

http://www.regulusastro.com/regulus/pap ... index.html

Possibly interesting discussion here (I couldn’t see the entire article):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1 ... 0.CO%3B2-9

War Arrow · Post by **War Arrow** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:13 am

Aha! Thanks. as usual one of those was staring me in the face (sort of) at least the Chaco Canyon material with which I'm familiar. My brain needs a search engine.