Bill's question answered
22 April 2010 | 515 miles from Hiva Oa
Manjula
Yes we can see the Southern Cross and Polaris at the same time. We have been able to for a while. Polaris is very low in the sky. I believe you can see the Southern Cross below latitude 20N. In the S hemisphere, the Southern Cross is pretty high in the sky. We've had a lot of cloudy weather though, so we've only had a handful of perfect star watching nights. There is also a meteor shower going on now- the Lydaes or something like that. Pretty cool. We are starting to get a bigger, later moon now, which is great. Makes a huge difference for the night watch to be able to see a horizon line. I'm hoping with the brighter nights there will also be fewer flying fish casualties. We only seem to be able to rescue about half of them :( The poor little buggers.