Re: Hemisphere swap

In article <1124505353.720744.164210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<boo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I've spent nearly my entire life at 43N. Lately I've been craving
>to see the stars in the Southern Hemisphere, hopefully before
>I get much older.
>
>Like to hear from people that have made the trip - what were
>your impressions of the starscape in the Southern hemisphere?

I actually cried out with amazement upon seeing the bright bits of the
Milky Way and Scorpio at the zenith. Obviously the middles of cities
are hopelessly light-polluted (though I spent a fruitless couple of
evenings trying to photograph the large bats living in the tree across
the park); but you can get out to really very dark skies in an hour's
drive from the middle of Sydney, and much darker than that if you're
prepared to get in a small plane and head to the desert.

http://www.arkaroola.com.au/ is a reasonable-looking observatory out a
fair way beyond civilisation, though it's unavoidably a bit expensive
to get there from South Australia, let alone from the UK.

Definitely, definitely worth the trip.

Tom
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