Star trails (APOD 1 Sep 2006)

Axel · Post by **Axel** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:37 pm

"The view looks to the south." But wouldn't it be southwest? If the view was due south, the pole (centre of the star trail circles) would be straight ahead.

jmb · Post by **jmb** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:17 pm

In the next sentence it says " ... the South Celestial Pole lies just off the upper left edge ...", so apparantly they are two diffent things.

iamlucky13 · Post by **iamlucky13** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:25 pm

Yes, it really is more to the SW. I guess it would've been better to say the view is roughly to the south, but it's definitely not looking exactly at 180 degrees.