On my recent trip to Chile, our group got a chance to visit an astronomical observatory in the Atacama Desert. The sky is completely different in the Southern Hemisphere. The Big Dipper is upside down just above the horizon and (of course) Polaris can’t been seen.

Other unusual features of the sky in that part of the world are the Southern Cross, a constellation of four bright stars in a cross-shaped pattern, and the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf companion galaxy that is on a collusion course with our home Milky Way galaxy.

My visit yielded an outdoor time-lapse photo of me with the Milky Way as a backdrop. It made an impressive souvenir.

For more pictures of my April 2025 trip to Chile, visit https://www.nolimitsbook.com/ and click on Patagonia in the timeline.