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| "Stars of the Middle Heavens" photo from Book Of Alien, published 1979 |
In Scanlon and Gross' Book of Alien, they talk the design crew worked long hours to produce a realistic chart of the Middle Heavens which can be seen barely in the background. What they show in a photograph of the chart in the book is one that contains an image of the moon and at the bottom of that, the top of a translucent star chart bearing the enigmatic title "Stars of the Middle Heavens" which is indeed a copy of Philip's Chart Of The Stars,which can be found to bear the words "stars of the middle heavens, approximate dates when the sun reaches each hour of right ascension".
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Photo of the same subject matter from a different angle
from the Alien film production, detailed and in colour.
(Image posted by Mykel Solo at https://www.facebook.com/yutani.studio/
on May 15th 2019 |
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Philips' Chart of the Stars with Philips Planesphere
(What seemed to be a real copy of the map) |
Why I am mentioning it is that it's likely that over the years since
its publications, many people assumed that the area of space that the
Nostromo was traveling through was named the "
Middle Heavens".
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| Reproduction with no serif typeface. |
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| What seemed to be a real copy of the map |
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| What seemed to be a real copy of the map |
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| What seemed to be a real copy of the map |
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| What seemed to be a real copy of the map |
I had been wondering if there was more behind this rather trivial detail than Scanlon and Gross had provided. Apparently, there is not much ;-) Indeed, thanks for wondering as well as being able to look into this.
ReplyDeleteThankyou indeed. It was nice to think about an area of space called The Middle Heavens for a number of years but it was something that had to come to an end.
ReplyDeleteVery Helpful! Writing some fan fiction...
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