So I'm going to keep going with the Anfendenberg's incredible crash course on stars. And he's talking here about the 88 constellations. In 1945 he writes, the International Astronomical Union, the IAU. He marked the limits of the constellations and which stars belong to which constellation. By 1970 88 constellations were universally accepted in addition to smaller star groups which were called asterisms. Asterisms are groups of stars that also form a pattern in the night sky. They differ from constellations in the way that they make up part of a constellation or that group includes stars for more constellations. For example, the Big Dipper is an asterism while its seven stars are part of the constellation or some major, the Great Bear. Following the IAU, the International Astronomical Union, it means that all ever-founded sky patterns, which are not mentioned in the list of 88 constellations, should be called asterisms. Since 2016 a working group of the IAU, called the WGSN, is listing names of stars. However, that doesn't mean that there is a rigid list or a given name on that list that has to be followed. All the names of constellations and stars are unofficial since they have their roots in many very culture-ish languages. You can even choose your own star or constellation and give it a name. One thing, paying for a registration is such a name made up by yourself to a certain star which seems to be offered on some internet sites, and do realize that nobody will ever use that name, frowny face, smiley face. As a last background info for better understanding, constellations and stars and planets in the center of the header, longitude and latitude. Constellations and stars and planets have two positions. They have an ecliptical longitude, which measures their positions east or west of the vernil point, spring, which is along the ecliptic. You take the kind of the ecliptic, the equator of the earth, and then you slice it this way. Those are the longitudes, east or west of the vernil point, spring. In astrological terminology, this is a diacol position of a planet or a star. When we say gate 21 is at 10 degrees, areas, we're describing its position as being 10 degrees east of the vernil point, giving it an ecliptical longitude. Interesting side effect of the translation here is the gendering her of the gate. So he refers to gate as a female. Stars also have an ecliptical latitude, which is their position north or south or above or below the ecliptic line. The planets orbiting around our sun never get very far above, below it. But stars obviously are. Constellations are astronomically divided north or south of the ecliptic line without as a diacol construction in between. Astrology and human design approve the construct of 12 signs projected on the celestial line called zodiac. So I think what he's trying to say here is just we're never really, you know, the planets are just going along the ecliptic mostly. They're a little bit off. The planets are pretty much going along the ecliptic. And, you know, because of that, we can kind of divide along the ecliptic, which is along the equator. And it's just along the line that we trace around, you know, the same line that we're tracing around the sun, the other planets roughly are. Of course, this is not the case entirely. I mean, they're kind of off. They're at various angles. And that accounts for things like retrograde motion, the apparent retrograde motion. We call it retrograde, but really it's only apparent because it just looks like it's going backwards. And so that kind of thing is accounted for. But I guess what he's saying here is he's really pointing out that the stars can be quite far off. The stars are not along the ecliptic because the stars are in three-dimensional space so they can be towards the north or south pole, so to speak, compared to where we are. And the path that we're on. And that's an interesting point because, you know, I was born with my ascendant at 26 degrees Taurus, which is quote unquote conjunct. Algo, but Algo is really far off the ecliptic, which means it didn't really look conjunct. I mean, you can't see it. I think it was actually going through the earth at the time of my birth. So it's like, if you want to know what star you were born under, right, to be born under a star. People say I was born under a fixed sign. I was born under the stars. That's different. You can't just look, you know, you have to actually figure out what star was overhead at that time. And there are ways of doing that. There are absolutely ways of doing that. So I think that's kind of what he's saying in general is just this. We're talking, we're giving an ecliptical longitude. There's 360 degrees. We divide the ecliptic into 360 degrees. And these are the longitudes. And there's an also ecliptical, I mean, at least in terms of its degrees, minute, seconds value. There's also an ecliptical latitude, which is the position north or south, that is above or below, the ecliptic line towards the north or south pole. The planet's orbiting around our sun, never get very far above or below it, but the stars obviously are. Constellations are astronomically divided north and south, right? But it's not like we have a system that says, oh, it's further north. So it's, you know, there's no division that way. There's only a division this way. That is what that's what he's saying. The division is, these are, these are longitudes. And there's no latitude division in astrology or in human design or in any system that really. But, you know, it's an interesting point. Astrology and human design approve the construct of 12 signs projected on the celestial line, the celestial equator, which is just the equator projected outward, right? Or the, I mean, it's, yeah. So anyway. Astrology and human design approve the construct of 12 signs projected on the celestial line called zodiac. Now we get to the nodes. So this is an interesting one. I think I'll save this for next time. This one, let's do, let's look at nodes next time. For now, just kind of, we learned a little bit. We learned about asterism today. We learned about constellations today. And really, it's interesting. And we kind of learned a little bit about longitude, latitude, and the ecliptic. And where stars actually are, which tend to be above or below, so that it really is, it's hard to visualize this stuff. In fact, when I was at the Northwest Astrological Conference a few years ago, I met this guy Kent Bai, who was working on virtual reality for astrology and really, really cool stuff. And what he wanted to be able to do was, you know, pinpoint any time and place and put you there. And you could look up at the sky and see the sky as it was at that point. And that would just be really helpful because when we're visualizing a lot of this, it's really hard sometimes, even for those of us with a strong three-dimensional visual sense, that we have ease rotating objects and our minds eye and so on, it's still hard to get a sense sometimes when we're talking about astronomy and these complex astronomical subjects.