notes for April 24, 2003 radio show
The following is to illustrate the
difficulty of observing the “Harrington location” in the sky from the
land points in the southern hemisphere … there are 2 problems … 1) the now
constant 30,000 foot haze layer that surrounds the southern hemisphere making it
very difficult to see anything that is not almost straight up (vertical) and 2)
the tremendous storm and weather activity. Both are due to the increased
solar activity that may be the result of an inbound large comet coming into the
solar system. The ancients claimed they never saw the last one coming and
maybe that is why … the same heavy haze and weather surrounds the Earth and
prevents visibility of the night sky … and especially comets that are diffuse
white objects.
the following drawings were added after the
radio show to illustrate the viewing angles from points in the southern
hemisphere … these drawings only depict the haze and not the constant cloud
and weather that now exists in the southern hemisphere … there may be intermittent
times of clear skies but when trying to move equipment to these remote locations
in a hurry the logistic problems are difficult at best … clearly the only real
good location is Antarctica and that is why the US gov has many new big
telescopes down there … the logistics of going to Antarctica are far more
extreme and even then one would not be guaranteed of good viewing
conditions
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