Night Sky
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There are several species of dolphin inhabiting the waters of the Mediterranean and for the seafaring people of Ancient Greece there were bound…
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• Sept 3rd – The Viking 2 landed on Mars this day back in 1976. • Sept 5 – Neptune, the 8th…
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August is a perfect time to observe the summer Milky Way, that band of pale, ghostly light arching across the sky…
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• Aug 2 – The moon is at apogee, its most distant point in its orbit for the month, at 251,671…
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“My god, it’s full of stars.” – 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel), by Arthur C. Clarke In the beginning, some 13.87 billion years ago,…
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SATURN: CROWN JEWEL OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM “No [expletive] way!”, the young lady cried. Realizing her faux pas in the middle of a crowd…
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• June 3 – Morning Sky: Venus is at its greatest elongation, 46 degrees west of the Sun, low in the…
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SEEING RED IN A SUPERB STAR Whenever I give programs on the basics of stargazing I always inform my audience that, through a telescope,…
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• May 2 – The Moon is at First Quarter at 9:47 PM CDT. • May 7 – On this night the planet…
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HAIL TO THE KING! JUPITER IS AT ITS BEST THIS MONTH Named for the king of the Roman gods, the planet Jupiter returns to…