Once upon a time, more than a century ago, two major baseball stadiums located less than a mile away in New York: one was located in Coogans Bluff, a promontory near the west bank of the Harlem River in the Washington Heights segment of Upper Manhattan. Known as Polo Grounds, it was home to the New York Giants and later the new New York Mets. The other was in the South Bronx; Yankee Stadium. No there is currently a baseball stadium, without delay adjacent to the “old” Yankee Stadium, a new Yankee Stadium was born in 2009. But for 40 years, starting in 1923, the Polo Grounds and the original Yankee Stadium were close to each other, separated only through the barriers of the municipality and a water frame.
The two ball parks were also in their respective forms. This was especially true with the Polo Grounds, nicknamed “The Bathtub” with very short dimensions (less than 280 feet or 85 meters) on the left and right box lines, while the dead box was at 483 feet (147 m). !
I think about it a lot at this time of year around the World Series, because we have something very similar in our existing skies in early fall: two baseball fields, one, like the Polo Grounds, with too giant dimensions. know who designed one of those stellar baseball fields, while the other has an unknown lineage.
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The star trend that reminds me of Yankee Stadium can be discovered this week well in the western sky a few hours after sunset. Astronomer Henry Neely (1879–1963), who worked at Hayden Planetarium in New York and known as the “Dean of New York Astronomers, “invented this style and described it in his 1946 e-book “A Primer for Star Gazers” (Harper
Study the stars of the constellation Cygnus, Cygnus and then check out our map of Neely’s baseball game.
The batter (the brilliant star Deneb) confronts the pitcher (Sadr) and connects a raise in the middle of the field. Albireo runs to get it and the moment phi base is also removed afterwards. Eta Shortstop ran to the canopy moment position for Phi. Deneb is a left-handed hitter, as left fielder Vega plays in the overall depth, but Altair is pretty deep in the middle right. Meanwhile, Epsilon (also known as Gienah) is at first base, while Delta (Al Fawaris) patrols the “hot corner” in the third.
Of course, if you ever point one of those heavenly baseball fields at the circle of family or friends, you may need to update the names of the stars with the names of the players on your own favorite baseball team. You can even beautify concepto. de this star trend through the game a small game consistent with the game.
For example, when describing the baseball game to his planetarium audience, Neely pointed to a couple of stars close to Deneb (Omicron and 32 Cygni) by commenting, “Well, it turns out there is an ongoing controversy. I see the manager having a discussion with the marble referee “.
And as you explore this ballpark, look left and locate another baseball stadium, albeit quite giant and a little strange.
I have no idea who first made the decision to designate this domain of heaven as a baseball field, however, the Great Square of Pegasus, a well-known monument of the dark sky, has been referred to as a baseball diamond through the speakers of the planetarium for those many years (although the “diamond” itself is in a rather stoned state). That’s why I chose to associate this star motif with the old Polo Grounds.
This week around 8 p. m local time, it’s almost above and south.
The star Scheat, in the upper right corner of the square, would mark the marble, the star Alpheratz, in the upper left corner of the square, marks the first base (Alpheratz, in fact, belongs to the constellation Andromeda, Princess Algenib, in the left rear corner of the position is the moment base, while Markab in the rear right corner is the 3rd base.
If your sky is quite dark, you will see two fourth magnitude stars, Tau and Upsilon Pegasi, either inside the square, and about a third of the distance between Scheat and Algenib. Perhaps we can believe that this stellar pair is the pitcher who has a convention with his catcher right in front of the mound, while the wait behind the marble is the referee, marked through the star Eta Pegasi, finally another pair of stars – Lambda and Mu Pegasi – is right next to the 3rd baseline. Maybe we can believe the batter’s taking orders from 3rd base.
Or that’s one more argument between the coach and the referee.
Neely ended his discussion about baseball by passing his electric pointer around the sky of the stellar planetarium with a steering wheel and, with his tongue firmly planted on his cheek, noting, “This will have to be a vital game played tonight. . . why, take a look at all the other people who showed up!”
But unfortunately, for most of the nearest towns and suburbs, Soft pollutants have suffocated the sight of all the brightest stars, somehow reflecting in our celestial stages what we saw in this dysfunctional year of 2020, when, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, baseball stadiums were not occupied by other Array people yet through cuts from other people sitting in the stands.
Joe Rao is an instructor and guest speaker at Hayden Planetarium in New York. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, Farmers ‘Almanac and publications. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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