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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Luna Occults Antares

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/050520_ … lt.html]If you missed the March occultation...

*...here's a 2nd chance. 

Includes cities and times table.

--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: Luna Occults Antares

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2005/ … th.gif]Sky Map

*If you're not overly familiar with the constellations, the sky map will come in handy.

Scorpius has always been my favorite constellation, and Antares my favorite star.  :up:  Nothing like watching Scorpius sweep along the southern horizon during childhood summers in the flat and humid Midwest, or here and now in the dry dessert.    It was one of the first major constellations I learned, aside from its rival -- Orion.

--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: Luna Occults Antares

http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/imag … tml]Photos of occultation

*Obtained by Mr. Jim Tegerdine of Washington State.

--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)