Paid quarterly. Inclusive of applicable taxes VAT. Paid quarterly Inclusive of applicable taxes VAT. Trending Latest Video Free. While the north pole faces outwards to the Universe beyond, the south pole points to the galactic centre of the Milky Way. This means more bright stars and more constellations containing more stunning objects.
This is our guide to stargazing and astronomy under the southern hemisphere guide, and a list of the top astronomical phenomena you can see south of the equator.
With the naked eye, find the Summer or should that be Winter? Triangle — which will be upside down compared to the view from the northern hemisphere — and trace the Milky Way from Deneb on the northern horizon up to Altair, across the zenith above you through Sagittarius and its Teapot asterism , and down to Alpha Centauri and the Southern Cross above the southern horizon.
Sadly Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star just 4. Just 4. Perhaps the most famous southern sight of all, Crux — the Southern Cross — can appear surprisingly small for first-timers. The Jewel Box cluster is best observed through binoculars or, better still, a small telescope. The Coalsack is an interstellar dust cloud about light years distant that blocks the light of stars behind it from reaching us.
The second brightest star in the sky after Sirius is 40 degrees below its brighter companion, so while rarely visible to stargazers in the northern hemisphere it can be glimpsed from equatorial latitudes , both stars are often seen together in the southern night sky. Northern newcomers have been heard to utter that the southern hemisphere is too cloudy, until being told that those hazy patches are actually close-by galaxies.
As a child, I enjoyed reading about space and had a collection of children's astronomy books. At a young age, I learned that living in Los Angeles County also meant that I'd have a limited view of the skies.
Though I was able to visit the Griffith Observatory from time to time, I rarely had a good view of the night sky. Instead, I'd visit mountains over Los Angeles where I could look down to see lights coming from the city. It's a cool sight, but it doesn't compare to what space has waiting for us. I owned a cheap pair of binoculars , but these didn't help much beyond making it clear how big a problem light pollution is for urban skywatchers.
Related: Losing darkness: Satellite data shows global light pollution on the rise. My parents moved away from California when I was 17 years old, and as part of this, I had to take a Greyhound across the country so I could meet my family at our new home. I went from Los Angeles to Mississippi and spent three days seeing small, rural towns for the first time. Along the way, the bus had a mechanical failure in the middle of nowhere in Arizona.
This annoying inconvenience actually gave me my first-ever view of a giant swath of stars, because there were no city lights around to spoil the view. I was still a teenager and didn't understand the many factors that can affect my casual stargazing, like light and air pollution. In , I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Despite being in a large city, I was pleasantly surprised that I could make out a few stars here and there, even though there are no significantly elevated areas in the city. This is because elevation can have an impact on the number of stars you see.
Other factors that can influence you include light pollution and humidity. The real treat though, was the Atacama Desert in Chile, and the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, located amid the Andes mountains in southwest Bolivia. San Pedro de Atacama, located near the Bolivian border in Chile, is a small desert town approximately 7, feet 2, meters above sea level. It's the driest place on Earth; rarely will you see a cloud there.
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