Bingo! Now it all makes sense, thank you eric!
i still don't get the the magellanic clouds being above the horizon, but now at least i know they haven't mysteriously migrated thousands of light years to the opposite side of the galaxy!
Is there a site you know that might teach me more about astoronomical navigation? I know lat and long, degrees minutes and seconds here on the ground, but i know nothing about arcseconds and the like...
I did a search here haven't turned up anything yet. Will keep looking.
Cheers