Northern Vs Southern Hemisphere.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Southern Belles ....opps souhern hemisphere.
Ive seen northern from Minesota 50klm,s from the Canadian Border.
Cheers Kev.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

But the margin is narrowing swiftly, the NH punks are installing rigs in the SH at an alarming rate of nots, we have but a small window of opportunity before the imaging world is swamped by SH images unrepeatable by us colonial convicts

Couldn't we organise a few search and destroy missions to slow them down?

[Mars4ever]

Hi everybody!
I'm writing from Italy and I decided to enter in this discussion because last april, after 11 years of astronomy experience, finally I've been for the first time in my life in the SH!
I went to Namibia in a "guest astronomy farm" wich rents a large variety of instruments, so I could observe all the previous unseen constellations, with a 50 cm Dobson under a perfect non-polluted sky in the middle of the desert!
The place is this one:
http://tivoli-astrofarm.de
It was my only possibility for having high-quality observations because I already had a good experience of observations under dark skies with telescopes about 40 cm diameter, so I would never go to the SH if I couldn't watch even the southern objects with a large telescope... and unfortunately we can't transport big Dobsons on airplane!!
After that, I wrote a very long report of that amazing holiday, in four parts:
http://visualsky.blogspot.com/2009/0...-lacaille.html
http://visualreports.blogspot.com/20...-stellari.html
http://visualreports.blogspot.com/20...ulose_770.html
http://visualreports.blogspot.com/20...-galassie.html
Sorry if it's in italian language and I don't have time to translate it, but you can try to do it automatically with Google.
What do you think about?
Greetings from a very snowy place!