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Thanks to dear friend Susan and the work of Jessica Cohen for this Hebrew translation of the League’s sky chart—the 18th!
A decade in, it joins: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Kannada, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil, and two Turkish versions.
The mind boggles and the heart swells as the League wishes clear skies to all.
Hebrew
I may not have left the country in four years, but the League’s sky chart continues to circle the globe! A belated merci à Patrick for his collaboration with a French translation and to whomever characterized it for the Chinese translation of NASA’s APOD back in November 2021.
We’re inching ever closer to the 20 languages mark—anybody out there fluent in Klingon?
Chinese (posted on NASA China)
French
After a third (!) appearance as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day last week and enough new eyes on this site to temporarily overwhelm my notifications (hello, new followers!), I’m happy to share the newest translation of the League's sky chart. Efcharistó to Ntinos Makropoulos of AstroVox for taking astronomy back to its roots with this Greek version.
Greek
Although the posting of this second Turkish version of The League’s sky chart is much-delayed, the content is ever-timely! Many thanks to Abdullah Uçar and Muaz Erdem of the Takiyüddin Astronomy Society (TAKAT) for their expert translation back in early 2019.
After being out in the world for 8 years in 14 (known) languages, this particular brainchild remains The League’s wunderkind. I like to imagine that somewhere in the reams of background material for the Pentagon’s recent UFO report is a printout that the task force used for handy reference.
As ever, The League welcomes further translations and will happily link back to any other versions (usually much faster than this time…). Please reach out in the comments or by sending a message here.
Turkish (posted on Twitter by @takatastronomi)
An unexpected plunge down the rabbit hole of intellectual property misuse today, but grateful that three of these unauthorized Astronomy 101 translations at least sort of credited the original? (Tsk tsk, thieving ZDFinfo).
The League remains pleased by the enthusiasm of skywatchers around the world, and always says "yes" to translation requests, so feel free to ask! Apparently Turkish, Hungarian, Portuguese and German are now covered, but that still leaves plenty :-).
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Turkish (posted on Uzaydan Haberler)
Portuguese (source unknown)
Hungarian (posted on MLZPhoto)
German (source unknown)
The best part of having the League's sky chart featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day again back on September 24th was getting asked about more translations. I love seeing this thing continue to make its way around the world four years on.
My thanks to Ahmad and Marc for these Arabic and Dutch versions (bringing the total translations up to nine!), and happy skywatching to all.
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Arabic (posted on السماء الليلة - Sky Tonight)
Dutch, with addition of "Iridium flare" (posted on personal FB page)
Today's discovery of a Norwegian translation of my astronomy chart is a timely and welcome reminder that science doesn't much care about geopolitical boundaries, and much of humanity gazes at our shared sky with equal wonder. It's a nice thought.
If you get a chance, I encourage anybody with clear skies to watch tomorrow's (Friday, February 10, 2017) lunar eclipse. Venus is also pretty awesome these days, and the eagle-eyed should try to spot Comet 45P! There's a lot going on in our galaxy, and most of it is gloriously silent.
Norwegian, with addition of "Iridium flare" (posted on tv2)
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