I've spent quite a lot of time in the Southern Hemisphere, but have never really been able to pick out the Southern Cross, even when people have tried to point it out to me. It's quite an experience to look up at the stars in the wrong hemisphere and not recognise anything. I've often wondered how astrologists deal with this. Given that I was born in June in the Southern Hemisphere, am I a Gemini?
What are the stones? Is that some sort of stone circle? If so, who built it and how long ago? Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Steve Larson > Sent: 12 May 2008 13:33 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Southern Cross > > nice work Dave, are those the magellanic clouds? > > Steve > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 5:27 AM > Subject: PESO: Southern Cross > > > > G'day All, > > > > Took this a few months ago but have just this weekend got around > > retouching it (~160kb) > > > > <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/2481946623_1e672bebcc_o.jpg> > > <http://flickr.com/photos/disavage/2481946623/> > > > > K10D, DA* 16-50mm f2.8 @ 16mm, 969 seconds @ f4, ISO 100, slight > > amount of reflected red gelled flash, lots of spotting in PS. > > > > Taken at "The Pinnacles", Nambung National Park, Western Australia, > > looking just east of the celestial south pole. > > > > Now to explain the title (if it's already apparent to you, carry one > > with whatever else you have to do today :-). > > > > For those familiar with the Australian, and various other southern > > hemisphere nations, flags the Southern Cross constellation > (officially > > known as Crux) is the crucifix pattern of stars featured on > the right > > hand side of the .au flag (5 stars make up the constellation). It's > > the brightest constellation in the southern sky & is easily > seen even > > in the city.. > > > > If you aren't familiar with the pattern, or just can't see it, look > > about halfway between the horizon & top of frame. Just left > of centre > > you should see 4 trails that look a bit like a crucifix on its side > > (with the long edge pointing to the right). That's the > Southern Cross. > > > > Anyway enough of the astronomy lesson. I thought it looked > kinda' cool :-) > > > > As always any & all comments welcome. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dave > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
