Thank you Gary, what a great education
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And to you too Bob, I didn't know about Sirius being highest around midnight on Jan. 1st. I love the story of Sirius, how it came to be "The Dog Star" and how "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Dog Days of Summer" came about.
Ooooh, I was just re-reading one of my fav. articles on Sirius which I had bookmarked to pop the link here, and it says something about New Years Day!
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This helical rising is referred to in many temple inscriptions, where the star is known as the Divine Sepat, identified as the soul of Isis. In the temple of Isis-Hathor at Dedendrah, Egypt, appears the inscription, “Her majesty Isis shines into the temple on New Year’s Day, and she mingles her light with that of her father on the horizon.”
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http://www.universetoday.com/19780/canis-major/
And there's some interesting info about its precession here:
http://www.universetoday.com/103894/...ays-of-summer/