Tekapo milkyway NZ - Crux vs Crux

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:23 pm

Hi folks:

I was reading Tuesday St. Times and found a stunning milkyway picture from Takepo NZ, South Island - perhaps the first town to be (will be?) UNESCO protected site 'cos of the sky above!!!

Scanned the image ...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-yIzpj2Hmwg/S ... mlandx.jpg

Looking closely at the image - i found that the Crux above the church points to the upside down Crux in the sky - the AP photographer was framing it intentionally perhaps. Close by is the dark cloud - coal shack! 'Northern' Hemisphere Stars pattern look 'laterally inverted' in S. Hemisphere and took me a while to get used to Orion's belt slanted to the other side there..

rgds
ykchia

Post by **rcj** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:48 pm

very picturesque, YK!

Tachyon · Post by **Tachyon** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:26 pm

More info here: http://www.tekapotourism.co.nz/feature.htm

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:35 pm

Hi Tachyon:

Thanks for the link.
Its Tekapo .. i misspell can some one help to edit the topic heading.. thanks

rgds
yK

Zephyrus · Post by **Zephyrus** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:38 pm

Hey ykchia, you can actually edit the topic heading by yourself. Just edit the title and it will change automatically. (: