~ View of 1st Quarter Moon (7 day old) as seen from Southern & Northern Hemispheres on 31st August 2025 ~
It’s very interesting how people of the world see how the Moon rises in relation to where they are on the surface of the Earth. In Australia we are in the southern hemisphere so when the Moon rises we view the south of the Moon to the top and the north to the bottom.
The Moon also heads over to the northern sky during the night, where as in the northern hemisphere the Moon heads over to the southern sky; this always throws me when visiting the northern hemisphere as the Moon is also upside down, tricky isn’t it ;-)
Don’t get me stared on the northern hemisphere constellation that we share; yes they are also upside down here in Australia, so if you are visiting us here down under be in for a nice surprise trying to work it all out :-)
Images taken with a Seestar S50 telescope, 20 images were captured then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
It’s very interesting how people of the world see how the Moon rises in relation to where they are on the surface of the Earth. In Australia we are in the southern hemisphere so when the Moon rises we view the south of the Moon to the top and the north to the bottom.
The Moon also heads over to the northern sky during the night, where as in the northern hemisphere the Moon heads over to the southern sky; this always throws me when visiting the northern hemisphere as the Moon is also upside down, tricky isn’t it ;-)
Don’t get me stared on the northern hemisphere constellation that we share; yes they are also upside down here in Australia, so if you are visiting us here down under be in for a nice surprise trying to work it all out :-)
Images taken with a Seestar S50 telescope, 20 images were captured then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
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