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 (Al)]

Originally Posted by skysurfer

Orion is a summer constellation in the southern hemisphere.

You know this.



Al.

[Rob_K]

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

[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 (Yugant)]

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

[OICURMT]

Originally Posted by Rob_K

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

Alzheimers...

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Manav

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

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 (Jonathan)]

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!