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    Astronomy Buffs [contest]

    Show your skills and your faggetry stargazing abilities with these questions:

    Approximately where on the Earth would you have to be to see the view shown below? Is there any
    way to tell about what day of the year this view represents?

    http://f.imagehost.org/0887/astronomy.jpg

    Basically I have no clue and I'm resorting to you guys.
    Whoever gives me the correct answer first with confirmation that it's correct, i'll post the code for a piano for your mog house via:

    http://f.imagehost.org/0576/gobb.jpg


    :] good luck.

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    when was the pic taken?

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    Northern Hemisphere, around 9PM EST

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    its a tuesday, possibly mid february

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    Jupiter being in the northeast should be the determining factor. I know in december its visible in the south in north america. So, I would wager a guess that its mayish in india or further south. If that is ice in the picture it could also be antarctica. Its somewhere in the southern hemisphere.


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    November, Australia

    http://www.perthobservatory.wa.gov.a...s-archive.html

    For australia:
    Jupiter: January 24: Conjunction
    May 16: Western quadrature
    June 15: Western stationary point
    August 15: Opposition (Jupiter rises in the east at sunset)
    October 13: Eastern stationary point
    November 11: Eastern quadrature

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    I think you are forgetting that earth is the center of the solar system.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mulligan View Post
    Jupiter being in the northeast should be the determining factor. I know in december its visible in the south in north america. So, I would wager a guess that its mayish in india or further south. If that is ice in the picture it could also be antarctica. Its somewhere in the southern hemisphere.


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    November, Australia

    http://www.perthobservatory.wa.gov.a...s-archive.html

    For australia:
    Jupiter: January 24: Conjunction
    May 16: Western quadrature
    June 15: Western stationary point
    August 15: Opposition (Jupiter rises in the east at sunset)
    October 13: Eastern stationary point
    November 11: Eastern quadrature

    Reviewing this.


    Quote Originally Posted by Cephius View Post
    Northern Hemisphere, around 9PM EST
    If you can back this up I'll accept that answer. I need solid results to turn in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blarg View Post
    I think you are forgetting that earth is the center of the solar system.
    thank you Ptolemy, your work is done here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by elphaba View Post
    The Northeast Florida Astronomical Society - By Jove... or at least next to it

    "To locate Jupiter, during most of June, look to the southeast until you find the bright red star Antares in Scorpio, and then look for the even brighter white star to its northeast."

    This site is basing their information from living in Florida.

    I'm still looking around though.
    Thats still in the south though, jupiter is northeast of antares but its still in the southern sky.

    Also, it has to be the southern hemisphere because there is no north star which is only visible in the northern hemisphere.

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    Faggotry*

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    Further november australia proof -

    http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/...mapnov2008.pdf

    Note Jupiter is on the left side of the page in the east northeast section.

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    Which is why its november and not december. Jupiter moves, it doesn't stay in one location in the sky all year long.

    Thats not orion...

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    Quote Originally Posted by elphaba View Post
    Orion isn't even visible on that map, and it clearly is on the picture. Orion is also only visible during the winter months in the Northern Hemisphere.

    Further proof from http://museumvictoria.com.au/Planeta...ecember-2007/:

    Orion, the hunter is back in our skies and can be seen in the north-east from sunset. For us in the south Orion appears to be standing on his head. Many people are familiar with the central stars of Orion that are commonly known as the Saucepan.
    North of Orion is Taurus the bull, with the bright star Aldebaran marking the Bull’s fierce red eye. Also part of the constellation of Taurus is the cluster of stars called Pleiades or the Seven Sisters.

    -- Orion's in the NW on that picture.

    --

    http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/Sky...20Mar%2009.pdf

    Jupiter, not shown, rises in the southeast before 4 a.m.; a very bright golden 'star'. Binoculars show it as a small disk. A telescope will reveal its four big moons strung out on either side of the planet. .

    The brightest stars are mostly along a strip from the northwest to overhead and on into the southeast sky. Orion and Taurus are in the northwest sky

    ~

    So, it COULD be from NZ/Aus, but it'd have to be at the beginning of the year.
    As you say yourself its in the southeast. Its in the northeast in the photo, which occurs in november. Because of its orbit in relation to ours it couldnt move from the south sky to north sky in one day.

    Anyway, im headed home from work, gl.

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    The north star should still be due north if it was the northern hemisphere and its not there, so i dont see how it could be northern hemisphere.

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    I checked an online star chart I found that lets you slide to any date.

    As above, Orion appears like that in winter months in the Northern Hemisphere. The problem is Jupiter always appears ABOVE Orion, not below, at least that I can find. Still looking into it though.

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    Looks shooped to me.

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    http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z...hhighlites.jpg

    I put some highlights on Orion and Perseus, also the Andromeda Galaxy.

    Polaris is beneath the horizon, which puts the latitude in the southern hemisphere. The relative position of Perseus to the horizon leads me to believe this was taken from about 20°S, which could put it in Australia.

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    Got it, a combination of those above are right, November 2001 around midnight in Eastern Australia.

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    Woo!

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    Bullshit dude, why do these threads pop up when I am away!?

    Bring your stargazing ass to Galaxyzoo.org with me and do some real good for humanity. You have to pass a test though but its cake and I'm sure you can pass it.

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