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I assume star tracking -- wikipedia seems to confirm "... and celestial referencing instruments (Sun sensor/Canopus Star Tracker) to maintain pointing of the h
by gregsadetsky 3y ago
I assume star tracking -- wikipedia seems to confirm
"... and celestial referencing instruments (Sun sensor/Canopus Star Tracker) to maintain pointing of the high-gain antenna toward Earth"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2
- kyleyeats 3y agoDung beetles do this too.
- gregsadetsky 3y agothat's nuts! "- African dung beetles orient to the starry sky to move along straight paths - The beetles do not orientate to the individual stars, but to the Milky Way" https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)01507-2 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)... https://www.science.org/content/article/dung-beetles-navigate-milky-way https://www.science.org/content/article/dung-beetles-navigat...
- CMCDragonkai 3y agoSo you can see astrological events do affect us.
- ozzmotik 3y agos/log/nom/
- dylan604 3y agoAs long as there's not too much light pollution. Fortunately for the dung beetles, their habitat isn't very urban. However, it's the little examples like this that make me a light pollution dork.
- gregsadetsky 3y agoSorry to self-reply, but this Q&A on "Space Overflow" about this specific star tracker is great: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/43803/how-did-the-canopus-star-tracker-work-are-there-any-still-out-there-in-service https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/43803/how-did-the-...
- rvnx 3y agoCool finding!