For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (61) - To the Southern Sky Projects

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For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (61) - To the Southern Sky Projects

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore

Published: Wednesday, April 29 2020 23:19

We have also to express our admiration for the projects dedicated to Southern Hemisphere: Australian Indigenous Astronomy and Southern Sky Gems - GAM on-line programs from Australia - and other beautiful projects from South Africa and Latin America (especially Brazil) which were born during GAM 2020.

We live under the same sky, but every hemisphere has its own particularities, and as inhabitants in the northern hemisphere, we tried to observe the well-known essential differences in the southern hemisphere during our former expeditions overseas.

We chose two of them for this episode:

1. We all know that the Moon has the shape of D as Crescent (growing Moon) and C for its Decreasing times in the northern hemisphere, while in the southern hemisphere the Moon is C as Crescent (growing Moon) and D in its Decreasing times.

In November 2012 Andrei Dorian Gheorghe went to observe a total solar eclipse in Australia and photographed the Decreasing Moon.

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2. In summer 2019 Valentin Grigore went to observe another total solar eclipse in Chile and photographed the pride of the southern sky: the Magellanic Clouds!

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