Unfortunately, his mnemonic would only work in the northern hemisphere, where the moon is observed in the southern sky with the right side of the moon sunward during the waxing phase and the left side sunward during the waning phase.

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When it's bolted onto the Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tolodo Observatory in Chile next month the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera will survey some 300 million galaxies in the southern sky, measuring the speed at which they are moving apart with phenomenal accuracy, and giving the best description yet of the accelerating expansion of the Universe.

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The mountains shimmer blue when the sun hits the eucalyptus vapors from the trees, at night, the dense star patterns of the Southern Hemisphere sky also shimmer in the clearest skies, and crossing the path to your cottage at night, you may well encounter a wombat, wallaby or kangaroo the 4000 acres are filled with them.

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While the Delta Aquarids are visible from all over the globe, viewers in the Southern Hemisphere tend to get a better show because the meteors appear to radiate from the sky's southern reaches.

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In the southern hemisphere the moon is in the northern sky and its left and right sides reverse.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The government in Khartoum, dominated by Arab Muslims from the north of the country, has offered a measure of autonomy to southern Sudan, whose inhabitants are mainly black African Christians or sky-worshippers.

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"Wales have always been confidence-driven, and that'll be sky-high as they were the only side to beat southern hemisphere opposition during the autumn Tests when they won against Australia, " said Bulloch.

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Back to the teapot: It didn't take long for motorists on Southern California's 405 freeway -- where evening plans go to die -- to notice something in the sky that looked a little unusual.

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