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The photons entering your eyes right now left Denebola in 1989. This white star at the tail of the lion hosts a debris disk where old material is becoming new worlds, and its Delta Scuti pulsations carry information too subtle for the naked eye. Decan 12 opens with the light of the most consequential year of reform in modern history.
The photons entering your eyes right now left Hamal in 1960. This orange giant burned through its first fuel, contracted, and reignited: helium fusion from the ashes of hydrogen. The Ram's star opens the decanal year on the Spring Equinox with a vital spark that has been lighting new years for three thousand years.
Fomalhaut is 25 light-years away, the closest of The Decan Log's major stars. The photons arriving tonight left in the year 2000, the millennium's threshold. The Lonely Star, one of the Four Royal Stars of Persia, sole first-magnitude star with an imaged debris disk. October 16-25: clarity and renewal.