GraphDark Hint - Zodiacal Light Example 2

  Now choose a lower latitude site, for example Harare, and draw the timetable again. Click in mid March just after dusk.

    The Zodiacal Light is then no better placed than it was for London  

    Now click just before dawn on the same night.

The ecliptic is now almost vertical and the Zodiacal Light would be easily visible reaching right up into the Milky Way.

A month earlier in mid February it is still well placed but would not be so obvious because it is mingling with the Milky Way.
 
 
  © Richard Fleet 2004

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