Frank, Thank you for your post. With your description I can also see your Bull in profile, particularly when Orion is low in the western sky. It is a reminder that the constellations we use today are simply the set that astronomers agreed to use in the s, that there are many other interpretations and that you are, of course, free to make up your own patterns if you wish!
Me and my Family were outside looking through my telescope and then I saw the saucepan. I recognised it straight away because I learnt about it at school last year. I did some more reasearch as soon as I saw it and found out it was connected Orion.
Me and my dad were outside looking through my telescope and I then saw the constellation of the saucepan. I recognised it straight away because I learnt it at school last year.
Hello, I would like to subscribe for this webpage to get latest updates, so where can i do it please help out. Hi, One way is to Follow sydneyobs on twitter. That way you get the link to the daily cosmobite blog every day. Is there a star called the Northern Star? Hello Bronwyn. There is a star called the Northern Star, but it is not visible from Australia.
Also known as Polaris, it is the star about which all stars in the northern hemisphere sky appear to circle. Hello D. In Greek mythology Artemis was the goddess of the hunt and Orion was her hunting companion. According to one version of the story she was in love with Orion, but killed him accidentally.
I live in Spain and my son has just last week arrived in Perth, He learnt from me the beauty of the nite sky, and when he told me he could see Orion I doubted him, he said its upside down and I really thought he has really lost it, well now I know different, Well impressed with this web site and the information gleaned,.
Thanks for your comments John. I am pleased that you like the Sydney Observatory website for we do try to provide useful and interesting information. Now that it is early summer in Australia Orion is once again prominent in the eastern sky. And yes it is upside down compared to the view that you are used to from the northern hemisphere. Hello Izzy. Stars like the stars of Orion do not change in human timescales so there is no obvious need to update this post.
Sydney Observatory does provide regular monthly sky guides so that people know what to look for in the sky during any month of each year. Your email address will not be published.
The Powerhouse acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the ancestral homelands upon which our museums are situated.
We respect their Elders, past, present and future and recognise their continuous connection to Country. Share: Email this. So I call it the Coffee Pot. Even though the Southern Cross is well known to people all over the world, not many know how to find it in the sky.
Finding the pointer stars of Alpha and Beta Centauri is the key to becoming familiar with this most beautiful timekeeper of the southern skies. At a distance of only 4. Getting up close to this deep southern star with a telescope reveals that Alpha Centauri is one of the most beautiful double stars in the sky. With its stars of different colours, the Jewel Box, or NGC , is one of the most beautiful compact galactic open star clusters in the sky.
Closing in with a 13mm eyepiece in a inch Dobsonian telescope will blow your mind, especially when you realise that every one of the or so stars you can see is an entire planetary system. Our planet orbits one of the , million stars that form the disc that is our Galaxy.
Although you can see the Milky Way in both hemispheres, the brightest and busiest sections are deep in southern skies. From Australia, this bulging central region of our Galaxy is visible directly overhead mid-year.
Just across from the Southern Cross is another incredibly rich region of the Milky Way lying around the star-birthing dust and gas cloud that is the Eta Carina Nebula. The clouds of Magellan look like two pieces that have broken off the Milky Way. The northern hemisphere has no equivalent to this pair of baby galaxies lying only a couple of hundred thousand lightyears away.
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