APOD 2.7

This picture, "Scenes from Two Hemispheres" is one that interest me greatly for several reasons. First off, I am curious as to how the 'night sky' picture taken on the left, appears to actually occur during the day with a bright blue sky. I was also intrigued however by the fact that constellations when viewed from different (North or South) hemispheres will appear upside down or right side up, depending upon where one is viewing the sky from. And also it is pretty weird to think about the fact that even halfway around the world, two people can be looking at exactly the same night sky and astronomical objects. While perusing the embedded links, I learned a bit more about the constellation Orion, which is in the night sky pictured. I was surprised to find out that the stars in Orion's 'Belt' are stars which I have never heard of before. I was expecting them to be very widely known stars that I would know already.