Antactica: is Orion a winter or summer constllation ?

[skysurfer]

Just curious if someone knows this.

As we all know, Orion is a summer constellation in the southern hemisphere (i.e. at least the latitude of the inhabited southern hemisphere outside the tropics) and a winter constellation in the northern hemisphere which is the same time of the year with best visiibility in December.

But what about as seen from Antarctica (i.e. latitudes above 67º S which is virtually all of the continent) ?

[sheeny]

You know this.:P

:)

Al.

[Rob_K]

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=86757

:shrug: ;)

[pgc hunter]

Orion is a summer constellation regardless of where you are in the southern hemisphere, except at the South Pole, where half of it is an all-year constellation.

[Manav]

Stellarium allows you change locations and see the night sky as required. Just click the location tab and search for "south pole"!

[OICURMT]

Alzheimers...

[multiweb]

Yeah it's prettty cool. Did that and had a look . Orion is very low on the horizon though. Funny thing to see everything spinning near horizontaly. The moon stays up for ever too. Not good for imaging.

[Lee]

The moon wouldn't be your biggest concern, with the sun not setting for several months at a time!

[Jon]

Jeez you could collect some nice data on faint glaxies in Octans, though :-)

Right at zenith, no light pollution to worry about - not even an ozone layer

[Lee]

You wouldn't need a cooler on your CCD either, might need a warmer!