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How to read it: face the compass point, look up the height shown.
The big question
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You are inside the Milky Way, so a band of it crosses every night sky. What people mean by “seeing the Milky Way” is the bright core, toward Sagittarius: from a truly dark site it is naked-eye obvious, from a city it is invisible. Three things decide whether tonight works: the core has to be above your horizon (it rides high in southern-hemisphere winter and sits low from northern mid-latitudes), the moon needs to be down or thin, and you need dark skies, meaning 30+ minutes from city lights.
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