BTW. Can anyone describe how the Milky Way looks at its best: naked eyes, no moon, no light and all ...
I would assume since we are inside the disc, the Milky Way would look as a band of concerntrated lumination stars running from one horizon to the other?
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- Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:36 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Earth, Solar System and Milkyway Galaxy
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- Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Earth, Solar System and Milkyway Galaxy
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- Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:14 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Earth, Solar System and Milkyway Galaxy
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Not that you'll see anything of course, as the Galactic Centre isn't visible from the earth - you'd need your xray eyes.... Well! I would like to look at the Milky Way the way the ancient people saw it. Ancient people saw it all the times by naked eyes, in all civilizations, East and West. In the E...
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:48 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Earth, Solar System and Milkyway Galaxy
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Both makc and BMAONE23 come up with the same answer: nov22 ... dec21 + 6 months = may21 ... june21. makc said right somewhere on the South. OK! I got both and will make my schedule. But for my understanding why Sagittarius + 6 months = Gemini? I am oriental and I am not familiar with the Western Zod...
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:47 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Earth, Solar System and Milkyway Galaxy
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- Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:40 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Earth, Solar System and Milkyway Galaxy
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Earth, Solar System and Milkyway Galaxy
I am not a student of astronomy, however I always have questions about the ralative position of these heaven objects: 1. Is the Earth's orbital plane (maybe the same as the solar plane) parallel with the Milky Way Galaxy plane? 2. What time of the year that, at night when we look into the sky above ...