Saturday, 12 September 2009

How does the Milky Way look like above 66° North and below 66° South?

On midnight, right around this time of year, the Milky Way will be in the zenith. Here is an XEphem rendering for the north of finland (65th latitude) for yesterday midnight (the brown outline marks the Milky Way):



Sky map for 65th latitude including milky way



You can also see this on photographs by finnish photographer Tommy Eliassen. He has many examples of this on his website. I won't put any in here, because I guess they are copyrighted, and not free to use.



This is an animated 24 hour version of the above sky map, which shows the rotation of the milkyway around the zenith:



Animated sky map including the milky way, 24 hours.

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