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- From: bcollins@utdallas.edu (ARLIN B COLLINS)
- Subject: Sky&Telescope Weekly News Bulletin
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:24:37 GMT
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- ----- Sky & Telescope Weekly News Bulletin
- ( no bulletin/info available from my source
- at the moment... must be a holiday :-)
-
- ----- THIS WEEK'S "SKY AT A GLANCE"
-
- DEC 27 -- SUN
- The crescent Moon is near Venus and fainter Saturn in the evening sky
- -- a striking sight. (Saturn is below the Moon, Venus is to its left.)
- Soon after dark, look for the 3rd-magnitude star Delta Capricorni even
- closer to Venus' left. Binoculars help.
-
- DEC 28 -- MON
- Venus is closest to Delta Capricorni; use binoculars.
-
- DEC 29 -- TUE
- *
-
- DEC 30 -- WED
- The eclipsing variable star Algol will be at minimum brightness,
- magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.1, for a couple of hours centered
- on 11:42 p.m. Eastern standard time. It takes several additional hours
- before then to fade, several hours after to brighten.
-
- DEC 31 -- THU
- First-quarter Moon (exact at 18:38 p.m. EST).
-
- Saturn's brightest moon Titan can be seen in a small telescope four
- ring lengths east of the planet for the next couple evenings.
-
- JAN 01 -- FRI
- *
-
- JAN 02 -- SAT
- The annual Quadrantid meteor shower is predicted to peak sometime
- around the predawn hours of Monday the 3rd. Some years this shower is
- very rich, in others poor.
-
- ----- THIS WEEK'S PLANET ROUNDUP
-
- MERCURY is hidden in the glare of the Sun.
-
- VENUS blazes in the southwest as the bright "evening star" during and
- after twilight.
-
- MARS is in Gemini, near the fainter stars Pollux and Castor. It rises
- during twilight and shines high overhead by midnight. Mars is closest
- to Earth on January 3rd -- the closest it will get until 1999 -- and is
- at opposition on January 7th. It's already as big as it will get, 15
- arc seconds in apparent diameter.
-
- JUPITER, in Virgo, rises around 12:30 a.m. and is the brightest "star"
- in the south at dawn.
-
- SATURN is the much fainter "star" to the lower right of Venus.
-
- URANUS and NEPTUNE are hidden behind the glare of the Sun.
-
- PLUTO, extremely faint at 14th magnitude, is in Libra low in the
- southeast at dawn.
-
- -----
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-
- --got me a new .sig for Christmas....
- --
- Arlin B Collins Tue 29 Dec Sun Civil Naut Astro
- bcollins@utdallas.edu rise: 07:30 07:02 06:32 06:02
- lat N32.9 long W096.9 set: 17:30 17:58 18:29 18:59
-