Seeing the Big Dipper from southern Queensland
Dec 06, 2018
2 minutes
by Peter Anderson
Just as stargazers at mid-northern latitudes are unable to see the Southern Cross because it never rises above their southern horizon, so for much of Australia it is not possible to trace the outline of the seven main stars (the ‘Big Dipper’) of the constellation Ursa Major (the ‘Great Bear’). But from the
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