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thank you so much Suzy. That is truly awesome info. I must say there is soo much that I still have to read up on just based on the comments to this thread alone.. woohoo.. loving it.
There is one question I have which has been bugging me for the last few days. Please let you know your comments on this guys and girls
"If we turn off the sun's light, we will be able to see all the stars that there are because as the earth rotates on its axis (24hr period), it will make visible pretty much all the stars that there are (lets not complicate things and put in the fact that all northern stars are not visible in the southern hemisphere and vice versa) since the sun's light is not there to drown out the star light. However, since the sun's light cannot be turned on or off on will, the only star's we can see are those that are not on the side of the sun, if we have the earth in the center. So basically all stars on the night side. Now as the earth orbits the sun on its annual cycle, the night sky that is visible will be changing since the location where the earth is, is changing. So based on this, the stars that are visible in the night sky can be used to find out where in the annual cycle we are. Well all this is just a re-iteration of what everyone knows.
Now my question is this. Is there a website where I can find out which stars/constellations are visible on a month by month basis for the southern hemisphere? I have got a planasphere but it does require abit of fiddling around. I am after a reference chart so if tomorrow I want to know what constellations will be in the july night sky, i can quickly look it up"
thank you
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