Celestial chamber

Celestial chambers (or celestial temples) are areas on and other where navigational readings were taken hundreds of yahren prior to the destruction of the . 
Over the hundreds of yahren in the later-half of the Thousand-Yahren War, celestial chambers were mostly removed from battlestars in the Colonial service, as their use was superseded by advanced technologies.
At the interior center of the dome is a single-user console with a crane-suspended sextant-like device. The console features a scanner that allows for visual reception of transmissions, including those on the later-disused gamma frequency band. 
Celestial chambers are built with a semi-spherical shell of transparent tylinium, which could be shuttered over when not in use .
== A Fateful Signal ==
In the aftermath of the Exodus, Captain happens upon an unused and, perhaps the last remaining, celestial chamber housed near one of Galactica's engines accessible by a lone hatch. Being the only known celestial chamber in existence, Apollo repairs it over time, introducing it to Lieutenants Starbuck and Sheba, and Cassiopeia, during a personal excursion. During this introduction, they happen upon a distorted gamma frequency signal, which is later lost during the Battle at Galaxy's Edge.
Apollo attempts to rediscover the transmission, but fails to do so... although, unbeknownst to him, he trips a toggle switch on his way out, and this allows a cleaner version of the signal to be received .
==Notes==
* The celestial chamber is reminiscent of a 17th century Earth seafarer's navigational tool called a sextant. Sextants are all but obsolete as and other technologies have supplanted them, thus making this anachronism a popular collectors' item.
== Related Imagery ==
File:TOS - Hand of God - Celestial Chamber - Apollo Seats Himself.jpg|Captain Apollo seats himself at the console .
File:TOS - Hand of God - Celestial Chamber - Apollo At Console.jpg|Captain Apollo seats himself at the console, with the chamber's shutters opened .
File:TOS - Hand of God - Celestial Chamber.jpg|Captain Apollo shows off at the console of the chamber, with Sheba, Cassiopeia and Starbuck looking ou into space .
File:TOS - Hand of God - Celestial Chamber - Sheba and Apollo at Console.jpg|Lieutenant Sheba and Captain Apollo receive an interesting transmission at the console .
File:TOS - Hand of God - Celestial Chamber - Apollo with Sextant.jpg|In the aftermath of the Battle at Galaxy's Edge, Captain Apollo looks through the eyepiece of a crane-mounted sextant-like device .
File:TOS - Hand of God - Celestial Chamber - Apollo Hits a Button with His Laser Pistol.jpg|As he departs, Captain Apollo's laser pistol handle hits a button on the console... .
File:TOS - Hand of God - Celestial Chamber - After Apollo Hits a Button with His Laser Pistol.jpg|The console is given a new directive but the handle of Captain Apollo's laser pistol, with him unaware .
File:TOS - Hand of God - Celestial Chamber - Apollo and Starbuck Leave Through a Hatch.jpg|Captain Apollo and Lieutenant Starbuck leave through the hatch .
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