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--=====================_188754375==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I apologise -- I cut off part of the Night Sky=20 Report from NatureNB. Here is the full report: ** This week's sky at a glance. The BIG DIPPER [Grand ours] stands on its handle,=20 high in the northeast, these evenings. Its top=20 two stars, the pointers, point left to the rather=20 dim NORTH STAR, about three fists at arm's length away. On Thursday night, Feb. 17, the MOON [Lune] will=20 go into its full phase, meaning that it will rise=20 as the sun sets and set as the sun rises, giving=20 bright nights. Expect higher high tides and lower low tides. This Week's Planet Roundup MERCURY [Mercure] and MARS are hidden behind the glare of the sun. VENUS [V=E9nus] (magnitude -4.2) shines as the=20 "Morning Star" in the southeast before and during dawn. JUPITER (magnitude -2.1) shines brightly in the=20 west-southwest at dusk and sets in the west=20 around 10 p.m. Get your birding scope on it in=20 late twilight while it's still high, to see its moons. SATURN (magnitude +0.6) rises around 11 p.m. but=20 is best seen in a birding scope at its highest in=20 the south in the early morning hours, around 4=20 a.m. Saturn's rings, are 10=B0 from edge on, their maximum for this year. As a point of interest, Denis Doucet remarked in=20 the recent night sky workshop that these rings=20 are approximately 250,000 km wide and 1 km thick, and are composed of ice. Nelson Poirier, Nature Moncton Forwarded by: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= - 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 --=====================_188754375==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <body> I apologise -- I cut off part of the Night Sky Report from NatureNB. Here is the full report:<br><br> <br> ** This week's sky at a glance.<br><br> The BIG DIPPER [Grand ours] stands on its handle, high in the northeast, these evenings. Its top two stars, the pointers, point left to the rather dim NORTH STAR, about three fists at arm's length away.<br><br> On Thursday night, Feb. 17, the MOON [Lune] will go into its full phase, meaning that it will rise as the sun sets and set as the sun rises, giving bright nights. Expect higher high tides and lower low tides.<br><br> <br> This Week's Planet Roundup<br><br> MERCURY [Mercure] and MARS are hidden behind the glare of the sun. <br><br> VENUS [V=E9nus] (magnitude -4.2) shines as the "Morning Star" in the southeast before and during dawn.<br><br> JUPITER (magnitude -2.1) shines brightly in the west-southwest at dusk and sets in the west around 10 p.m. Get your birding scope on it in late twilight while it's still high, to see its moons.<br><br> SATURN (magnitude +0.6) rises around 11 p.m. but is best seen in a birding scope at its highest in the south in the early morning hours, around 4 a.m. Saturn's rings, are 10=B0 from edge on, their maximum for this year.<br><br> As a point of interest, Denis Doucet remarked in the recent night sky workshop that these rings are approximately 250,000 km wide and 1 km thick, and are composed of ice.<br><br> <br> Nelson Poirier,<br> Nature Moncton<br><br> Forwarded by:<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> --=====================_188754375==.ALT--
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