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If you want to go flying through the nearby stars instead of just looking at them, check out a program called 'Celestia', you might be able to find it on the link I gave you before :)

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G'day mate. I have a book called Skywatching, by David H. Levy, it gives all the constellations and some of the stars within the constellations. Well worth the money.

An excellent free software package is Carte du ciel.

http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/download.html

Excellent pic of 'The Plough', mate.

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Nothing to do with astronomy, but this thread has got me wondering whether Australian astrologers have their own set of star signs?

 

An example

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G'day mate. I have a book called Skywatching, by David H. Levy, it gives all the constellations and some of the stars within the constellations. Well worth the money.

An excellent free software package is Carte du ciel.

http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/download.html

Excellent pic of 'The Plough', mate.

 

 

Bobj will definately have a go at photographing and studying the stars this year. May upgrade to an SLR so the chance of better photos. Just wish I had got a shot of the milky way - well I assume thats was it was as it looked milky!!! :rolleyes:

 

 

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Nothing to do with astronomy, but this thread has got me wondering whether Australian astrologers have their own set of star signs?

Astrologers (as opposed to astronomers) are interested only in the constellations of the zodiac as these are the ones that the sun, moon and planets appear to be in.

 

All the zodiacal constellations can be seen from Australia; it's only in high latitudes near the north and south poles (roughly in the arctic and antarctic circles) that some of these constellations remain permanently below the horizon. Different constellations are lost below the horizon in the arctic compared with the antarctic though.

 

However one interesting fact is that the constellations appear "upside down" in the southern hemisphere!

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Astrologers (as opposed to astronomers) are interested only in the constellations of the zodiac as these are the ones that the sun, moon and planets appear to be in.

 

All the zodiacal constellations can be seen from Australia; it's only in high latitudes near the north and south poles (roughly in the arctic and antarctic circles) that some of these constellations remain permanently below the horizon. Different constellations are lost below the horizon in the arctic compared with the antarctic though.

 

However one interesting fact is that the constellations appear "upside down" in the southern hemisphere!

 

Spot on, mate. The zodiacal constellations are in the ecliptic, that is, the path followed by the sun....

One easy "sign" is Taurus, look for The Hyades, the head and Aldabaran (a reddish coloured star), the eye of the bull.

Very odd, but amateur astronomers want to 'see' the galaxies of the northern hemisphere, while those in the northern hem. want to 'see' the star clusters and nebulae of the south, such as 47 Tucanae, NGC5139( Omega Centauri) and Eta Carinae

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Bobj :D As you probably know I have a static caravan over on the Mull of Galloway. There is minimal light pollutioin there and the stars are truly amazing at times.

 

This is a shot of the Plough that I took with my Canon digital back in September

 

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Had a squiz at Mizar on the internet (the double star) and here is some info....

 

http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/mizar.html

 

Incidentally, two of the Northern Hemisphere's better galaxies are in that photo, though not visible due to their distance and magnitude, M81 and M101. M51 is close to Alkaid, the first star in the "handle", but is actually in the next constellation, Canes Venatici, The Hunting Dogs.... Though a big telescope is needed to view these galaxies and, photo time exposures are needed to bring out the colour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Major.

http://www.astrocruise.com/m51.htm

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Nice info Bobj,you are one clever hombre methinks :thumbs::sun:

 

 

Fishing digs on the Mull of Galloway - recommend

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