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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?

Great! Thanks Empeda,
ngungo

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...

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...

Thanks all for responses. I figure that in order to "see" our Milky Way clearly, few conditions are needed: . No light . No moon . Clear sky . A time of the year that we can look into the galatic center (the earth' position is between the sun and galatic center). I plan to go to a New Mexi...

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 ...