Welcome at Australian Sky & Telescope Magazine March-April 2022 Issue

IN A COUNTRY SUCH AS AUSTRALIA that spans so far from north to south, it’s sometimes easy to forget that astronomical objects that can be seen at one latitude cannot be seen at others. I was reminded of this recently when I was reminiscing about living on the NSW north coast in my youth, and being able to just make out the Andromeda Galaxy with binoculars, low on the northern horizon. I can’t easily do that now from Sydney, as the giant galaxy culminates at only about 14° altitude. There are too many buildings, hills and trees in the way, not to mention the light pollution. And for those in our more southerly cities it’s either extremely hard or essentially impossible.
But the difficulty of seeing a northerly astronomical object such as Andromeda is more than compensated for by the long list of objects that are always visible to us in the southern half of the sky. I know that our cousins in the Northern Hemisphere rave about the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia and other such sights, but I wouldn’t swap our southern skies for anything.
Where we live determines what we can see, both on the ground and in the sky. And thankfully we have many means at our disposal, such as the
pages of AS&T, that enable us to journey to places far away and see celestial sights that are not always easily accessible for us. Seeing beyond our line of sight
Jonathan Nally, Editor
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