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Star trails (APOD 1 Sep 2006)
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:37 pm
by Axel
"The view looks to the south." But wouldn't it be southwest? If the view was due south, the pole (centre of the star trail circles) would be straight ahead.
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:17 pm
by jmb
In the next sentence it says " ... the South
Celestial Pole lies just off the upper left edge ...", so apparantly they are two diffent things.
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:25 pm
by iamlucky13
Yes, it really is more to the SW. I guess it would've been better to say the view is roughly to the south, but it's definitely not looking exactly at 180 degrees.