Posted on 02/01/2013 12:11:06 PM PST by JoeProBono
Because the Milky Way forms a great circle in the sky, you can see equal amounts of it from the same latitude in either hemisphere. The closer to the equator you are, the more you can see. At the poles, you can only ever see half, because you can only see half of the sky. At the equator, you can see it all, because you can see the whole sky (if you watch for a whole year).
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Thanks JoeProBono. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. |
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So this is where the Greeks got their myth of Sisyphus from.
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