Zodiacal light etc.... 29 Oct 2009

[toejam]

This is "The Dawn's Left Hand" is it not? Of Omar the Tentmaker & Edward Fitzgerald?
of
Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
I heard a voice within the Tavern cry,
"Awake my Little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091029.html

[starnut]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091029.html

Does seeing that the Zodiacal Light and the Milky Way band are almost parallel in this photo mean that the Solar System is moving around the Galaxy edgewise?

[burkhartrl]

I confused , , the text says that this light is seen during this time of the year, and from the Northern Hemisphere -- then it says the picture was taken in June (it's now almost November) and the picture was taken in Chile .... What am I missing?

[canuck100]

If you believe Wikipedia, it says that

plane of the Milky Way is inclined by about 60° to the ecliptic (the plane of the Earth's orbit), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

I've read 58 degrees elsewhere but I cannot find a reliable citation at the moment. I'll edit this post if I find one.

[Case]

Here are some APODs with other visual angles between them:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010912.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040825.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081129.html

Perhaps these projections of the full sky show their relation best:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980128.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000517.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000518.html