Southern Cross visibility from British Isles

[cathalferris]

Just for curiosity:

With a recent version of Cartes du Ciel / Skycharts, enter the date as Valentine's day, 10,000BC. Set the time to midnight.

Look to the south.

Isn't precession an odd beasty sometimes!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I once spotted the Southern Cross from these latitudes, but that was a ship

[Double Kick Drum]

I look forward to seeing the Southern Cross at half mast after we win the Ashes this summer.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

To see it from here we only need to wait another 12,000 years. What goes around, comes around, ..., eventually.

I have a couple of DSOs in Crux bagged from my trip to Australia a few years back. The Coal Sack is an odd one, because it is the only DSO for which I only have a Caldwell number.

[DaveS]

And it will be cloudy