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Random stars thoughts.
I now know constellations in the south better than I do in the north. Go figure. 'Course, I hardly knew them here, so it wasn't that difficult to do. :)
I need to remember to go outside and try to find orion (since that constellation is visible in both hemispheres).
The Southern Cross, if including the stars which help locate it, makes me think of a kite, not a cross. And the milky way is lovely; I don't think I've ever seen it that well (possibly - based on the Southern Cross being in it, and only visible in that hemisphere - because I can't see most of it here). Not sure I've ever seen the stars as clearly as I did ~1.5 hours away from Melbourne, but that may actually only seem to be the case because there are just _more_ stars visible there (I've heard that that is true, but don't know how accurate that actually is).
I really should brave the cold some night and star gaze. They are generally much, _much_ clearer in winter than in summer, here, IIRC (probably because the cold prevents much in the way of cloud cover, although I think there might just be better availability in winter, as well). I'm just not really entirely sure where to _go_ to see reasonable amounts (as vs. an easily countable number) of stars, at least not within a reasonable distance from where I live.
I now know constellations in the south better than I do in the north. Go figure. 'Course, I hardly knew them here, so it wasn't that difficult to do. :)
I need to remember to go outside and try to find orion (since that constellation is visible in both hemispheres).
The Southern Cross, if including the stars which help locate it, makes me think of a kite, not a cross. And the milky way is lovely; I don't think I've ever seen it that well (possibly - based on the Southern Cross being in it, and only visible in that hemisphere - because I can't see most of it here). Not sure I've ever seen the stars as clearly as I did ~1.5 hours away from Melbourne, but that may actually only seem to be the case because there are just _more_ stars visible there (I've heard that that is true, but don't know how accurate that actually is).
I really should brave the cold some night and star gaze. They are generally much, _much_ clearer in winter than in summer, here, IIRC (probably because the cold prevents much in the way of cloud cover, although I think there might just be better availability in winter, as well). I'm just not really entirely sure where to _go_ to see reasonable amounts (as vs. an easily countable number) of stars, at least not within a reasonable distance from where I live.
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Orion is almost due south around 9:00 pm these days. He'll be upside down compared to the way you saw him in Oz.
The southern Milky Way is much more vivid than the parts of the galaxy we can see from here. Your best view of the Milky Way right now is up to the north, looking toward Perseus. I recommend some low magnification binoculars to really bring out the Milky Way starfields.
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:)
He'll be upside down compared to the way you saw him in Oz.
Yep. Which is much of why I want to see him. :) Location information noted!
Don't actually own any binoculars (which I really need to fix at some point, and not just for this reason). But notes as far as where to look.