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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Moon Nearly @ Zenith

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*If you live in mid-northern latitudes or farther north, go outdoors and have a look-see.  :up:

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Palomar

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Moon Nearly @ Zenith

*Might as well pluck this down in here; it's relative.  While Luna is nearing its rendezvous (or near-to-rendezvous) with the Zenith, it'll pass very close to the Pleiades.  Europeans are favored for this event:  From your perspective, the Pleiades and Luna will be only 1 degree apart.  That'll be a pretty crescent and nice star cluster (the Pleiades are visible to the unaided eye).  :up: 

Here's a http://www.spaceweather.com/images2005/ … th.gif]sky map.

We've got a storm front moving in later today with clouds and precipitation (going from sure Spring to another touch by Old Man Winter again, apparently), so I'm not sure I'll see it.

Good luck. 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)