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--=====================_548582562==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This Week's Sky at a glance On Tuesday, January 4, the moon will go into its=20 New phase meaning it will rise and go down with=20 the sun making for dark nights. Also expect=20 higher high tides and lower low tides. *On Wednesday, January 5* by 9 p.m. the Winter=20 Triangle is well up in the east-southeast. It=20 consists of Betelgeuse in Orion's leftmost=20 corner, bright Sirius far below, and Procyon to=20 the left of these two. It's altogether nicer than=20 the more famous Summer Triangle --- brighter, more colorful, and= equilateral! This Week's planet roundup. *Mercury* is having an excellent morning=20 apparition. Look for it shining at magnitude 0=20 low in the east-southeast about an hour before=20 sunrise. It's very far to the lower left of bright Venus. *Venus* (magnitude --4.6) blazes as the "Morning=20 Star" in the southeast before and during dawn. In=20 fact Venus rises some two hours before the first=20 glimmer of dawn --- a weird UFO of a thing in the east-southeast. *Mars* is lost in the glow of sunset. *Jupiter* (magnitude --2.3,) shines in the south=20 during twilight and southwest later in the=20 evening, still the brightest starlike point in=20 the evening sky. But it now sets by about midnight. *Saturn* (magnitude +0.8) rises around midnight=20 or 2 a.m., but it's best seen in a birding scope=20 high in the south-southeast to south before and=20 during dawn (far upper right of brilliant Venus).=20 Saturn's rings have widened to 10=B0 from edge-on,=20 the widest they've appeared since 2007. Nelson Poirier, Nature Moncton ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Blake Maybank maybank@ns.sympatico.ca 902-852-2077 Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds" http://nsbs.chebucto.org Organiser, Maritimes Nature Travel Club http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia" http://tinyurl.com/birdingns Downloadable Nova Scotia Maps for inside front and back covers: http://tinyurl.com/mr627d White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada =20 --=====================_548582562==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <body> <b><u>This Week's Sky at a glance<br><br> <br> </u></b>On Tuesday, January 4, the moon will go into its New phase meaning it will rise and go down with the sun making for dark nights. Also expect higher high tides and lower low tides.<br><br> *On Wednesday, January 5* by 9 p.m. the Winter Triangle is well up in the east-southeast. It consists of Betelgeuse in Orion's leftmost corner, bright Sirius far below, and Procyon to the left of these two. It's altogether nicer than the more famous Summer Triangle --- brighter, more colorful, and equilateral!<br><br> This Week's planet roundup.<br><br> *Mercury* is having an excellent morning apparition. Look for it shining at magnitude 0 low in the east-southeast about an hour before sunrise. It's very far to the lower left of bright Venus.<br><br> *Venus* (magnitude --4.6) blazes as the "Morning Star" in the southeast before and during dawn. In fact Venus rises some two hours before the first glimmer of dawn --- a weird UFO of a thing in the east-southeast.<br><br> *Mars* is lost in the glow of sunset.<br><br> *Jupiter* (magnitude --2.3,) shines in the south during twilight and southwest later in the evening, still the brightest starlike point in the evening sky. But it now sets by about midnight.<br><br> *Saturn* (magnitude +0.8) rises around midnight or 2 a.m., but it's best seen in a birding scope high in the south-southeast to south before and during dawn (far upper right of brilliant Venus). Saturn's rings have widened to 10=B0 from edge-on, the widest they've appeared since 2007.<br><br> <br> Nelson Poirier,<br> Nature Moncton<br><br> <br><br> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= -<br> Blake Maybank<br> maybank@ns.sympatico.ca<br> 902-852-2077<br><br> Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"<br> <a href=3D"http://nsbs.chebucto.org/" eudora=3D"autourl"> http://nsbs.chebucto.org<br><br> </a>Organiser, Maritimes Nature Travel Club<br> <font color=3D"#0000FF"><u> <a href=3D"http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel" eudora=3D"autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel</a></u></font> <br><br> author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"<br> <font color=3D"#0000FF"><u> <a href=3D"http://tinyurl.com/birdingns" eudora=3D"autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/birdingns<br> </a></u></font>Downloadable Nova Scotia Maps for inside front and back covers:<br> <a href=3D"http://tinyurl.com/mr627d" eudora=3D"autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/mr627d</a> <br><br> White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada </body> </html> --=====================_548582562==.ALT--
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