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January 17, 2010

Can you see his belt?

devadutta @ 8:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1263758458 ) Play

Amazing photos showing a simple concept. What?

Cracked by: shrik , alephnull , Gurupad , Keerthi Kiran M , Vinay Hegde , Raghuvansh , Abinaya , Rogi and prasanth

Answer:

Pictures of the sky taken from northern and southern hemispheres

26 Responses to “Can you see his belt?”

  1. Sid Says:

    The constellation is upside down


  2. Raghuvansh Says:

    Differences in the sky from two hemispheres.


  3. Abinaya Says:

    Picture of the two poles North and South aka Arctic or Antartic


  4. udupendra Says:

    Axial tilt of the earth?

    udupendra

  5. Rogi Says:

    The constellation Orion taken from each hemisphere, since one of them is an inverted version of the other.
    I guess the simple concept would be *Seasons*?
    (Provided they were taken around the same time)
    Where the left pic is the southern and the right is the northern hemisphere.


  6. Aditya Says:

    Scattering of light? Less light scattered at higher altitudes, and sky appears black.

    Aditya

  7. Aditya Says:

    No, wait. Orion constellation?

    Aditya

  8. shrik Says:

    The sky appears ‘upside down’ in the southern hemisphere, as evidenced by Orion’s sword hanging upwards in the left half of above pic.

    shrik

  9. scipio Says:

    Orion’s belt.


  10. Bharath Says:

    the belt of orion

    Bharath

  11. Ps Says:

    Circumpolar stars, and their differing positions in the night sky in different seasons.

    In this case the position of the Ursa major and minor constellations.

    on a side note apparently you can calculate time basis this.


  12. akhi Says:

    er Diurnal Motion?

    akhi

  13. Dibyo Says:

    orion?

    Dibyo

  14. prasanth Says:

    the 2 hemispheres of earth?


  15. varuns88 Says:

    Orion?

    varuns88

  16. Logik Says:

    The nebula/ constellation is Orion.

    The red and blue shift phenomena present in the Orion nebula can’t be explained simply by doppler effect.
    hence they’d to do some new jazzy theory for this.
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full.....….9F ?

    Logik

  17. Ananth Says:

    belt of orion

    Ananth

  18. santhakumar.s. Says:

    quipper belt


  19. Rogi Says:

    I guess another concept could be *perspective*.


  20. alephnull Says:

    Picture of the same star field from the southern and northern hemispheres respectively. Recently featured on APOD.


  21. Gurupad Says:

    The “up side down” orientation of the Orion’s belt in the southern hemisphere. It is called the saucepan in the southern hemisphere.

    Gurupad

  22. sidsen Says:

    many years back i bought this black belt, which if you flip over becomes a brown belt. apparently this dude orion had come up with this concept many years back. flipped his belt over every equinox.


  23. Keerthi Kiran M Says:

    One from northern hemisphere another from southern hemisphere.


  24. Vinay Hegde Says:

    The Orion Constellation as seen from the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Hence the apparent rotation of around 180 degrees.


  25. PrK Says:

    Orion


  26. madhur Says:

    Orion?

    madhur

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