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What is actually in this area?

If you have Google Earth, load it and change to the sky view and type the coordinates -6.01931, -91.5903 into the search bar.

There is a blacked out area which also appears on the microsoft sky viewing software also, except on theres it is blocked out differently.
Does anyone know what is even in this area of space? does anyone have a powerful telescope with which to go outside and have look with?

I'm interested in finding out.

Also manually look in the vicinity of RA 5h49m15.80s -4°02'38.02 and tell me what THAT thing is?

Thanks for any help you can give me.
 
It's a fairly small patch of sky, considering the distance from Earth. They may simply have blocked it because the basis image contained a classified satellite or something.

Incidentally, I love how if you type "Earth" into the search bar it says No Results.
 
Yes I have a small telescope but I'm not going to look because I've a good feeling I won't find anything

Your first coordinate sounds like a error, I don't have GoogleEarth but here's why it sounds like an error. Your first number should be RightAscension and your second Declination. RA runs from + 0 hours to + 24 hours having a number -6 sounds a bit nuts, also declination can run into minus numbers but when sound of the celestial equator it runs from - 0 to - 90

A number -91.5 also sounds to be in error

if your sitting on the south pole looking straight up near the stars in the southern cross your at -90 and you don't get any more South than your South Pole in Antartica so I'm afraid a -91 number is just wrong

Now for the cordinate that is true
RA 5h49m and Dec -4° sounds like you are smack in the middle of the Orion Nebulae,
what happens here when telescopes or satellites are viewing the sky is your camera can get a complete whiteout because the Orion Nebula is just so bright (its one of the few Nebulae a person can view with the naked eye as a foggy patch)
Special photography is needed to capture all the stars and nebulae details in this area of the sky so I'm afraid there's no conspiracy here

They may simply have blocked it because the basis image contained a classified satellite or something.

doesn't really work that way the OrionNebulae might appear stationary in the night sky but classified sats move around quiet a bit, even if you are able to track satellites or have a software program showing their coordinates the military sat is likely to be disguised as an ordinary weather sat etc
 
Just a bit to the left of the Orion nebula, actually. It appears to be a fairly unremarkable section of sky.
 
That spot of sky contains a giant circular track with a vehicle travelling at incredible velocity...

Shhh, it's a secret.
 
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