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Originally Posted by Rob_K
And it was a wonderful display of night sky - sure, the shortage of bright stars...
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Dunno which way you were looking
If you look at the
Wikipedia list of brightest stars only Canopus, Achernar and Alpha Centauri are not visible from the UK.
Then there's the Summer Triangle, and usual suspects from around the celestial equator, they're just lower than you're used to
. Ursa Major and Cassiopeia are pretty distinctive IMO, the former with most stars around magnitude 2 make it visible pretty much from anywhere outside of city lights (that being the challenging bit!)
My best views of M31 to date have been from Queensland...the drier air more than compensated for the altitude and light pollution I was used to in the UK...