Tuesday, September 13, 2011

If the constellation Pisces is high in your sky, where is the constellation Virgo?

If the constellation Pisces is high in your sky, where is the constellation Virgo?





A. Your eastern horizon


B. Your western horizon


C. Too close to the sun to see


D. Below your feet and rising in about 6 hours


E. Below your feet and rising in about 6 months|||(D)|||The sequence of the zodiac constellation after pisces is aries-taurus-gemini-cancer-leo-virgo. Assume that our sky containing 12 zodiac and each of it covers (360/12)=30 degree on the sky. So the angular distance between pisces and virgo is about 180 degree, or when pisces on it's highest altitude, virgo is under our foot. And the time that virgo need to reach our horizon is 90 degree or 6 hours.





On the sky, aries is on the east side of pisces, so virgo is on the east side of pisces. So we can conclude that the answer is (D). :)|||E. Below your feet and rising in about 6 months


{They are both in the Zodiac. Look at the Zodiac to know that they are diametrically opposite, 6 months apart}|||I can麓t really answer, but it would be good if you downloaded Stellarium for this kind of tasks. It麓s an excellent program =)





Hope this helps anyway!

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