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February Sky
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7-Feb |
Mercury at superior conjunction at 4am, EST |
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Full Moon (Snow Moon) at 4:54pm, EST |
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9-Feb |
Mars rises with a waning gibbous moon a few hours after sunset |
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Venus just 0.3o from Uranus at sunset |
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Feb 12 and 13 |
Moon near Saturn and Spica these mornings |
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14-Feb |
Last Quarter Moon at 12:04pm, EST |
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21-Feb |
New Moon at 5:35pm, EST |
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25-Feb |
Crescent Moon in spectacular pair-up with Venus after sunset |
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26-Feb |
Moon near Jupiter tonight |
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29-Feb |
First Quarter Moon at 8:21pm, EST |
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February Planets
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Mercury |
Superior conjunction on 7th; late in month, appears low in the western sky after sunset |
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Venus |
Shines brilliantly in W sky after sunset; within a binocular field of Uranus during first two weeks of February |
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Mars |
Approaching a March opposition; rises shortly after sunset and brightens to magnitude -1.2 by month?s end |
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Jupiter |
In SW sky at sunset; sets around midnight |
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Saturn |
Rises near midnight; near Spica all month |
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Mars |
Rises at 10pm, EST on Jan 1st, 8:30pm, EST by month?s end. As it drifts from Leo into Virgo, Mars brightens to magnitude -0.5. |
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Jupiter |
Well up in the SE sky at sunset |
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Saturn |
In SE morning sky near Spica |
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Year At a Glance
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Mar-12 |
Mars at opposition |
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Mar-12 |
Messier Marathon (best weekend date) |
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Apr-12 |
Saturn at opposition |
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Apr 15-22 |
Texas Star Party, Ft. Davis, TX (texasstarparty.org) |
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Apr 21-22 |
Lyrid Meteor Shower |
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Apr-12 |
Astronomy Day (spring) |
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Apr 28-29 |
Northeast Astronomy Forum and Telescope Show (NEAF), Suffern, NY (www.rocklandastronomy.com) |
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May 23-28 |
Riverside Telescope Makers Conference, Riverside, (www.rtmcastronomyexpo.org) |
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Jun 5-6 |
VENUS TRANSIT!!! (Last one until 2117) |
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Aug 12-13 |
Perseid Meteor Shower |
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Aug 16-19 |
Stellafane Convention, Springfield VT (stellafane.org) |
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Oct 5-6 |
AstroAssembly, Seagrave Observatory, North Scituate, Rhode Island (www.theskyscrapers.org/astroassembly) |
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Oct-12 |
Astronomy Day (autumn) |
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Oct 21-22 |
Orionid Meteor Shower |
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Nov-12 |
Total Solar Eclipse, visible from n. Australia and s. Pacific Ocean |
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Nov 17-18 |
Leonid Meteor Shower |
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Dec-12 |
Jupiter at opposition |
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Dec 13-14 |
Geminid Meteor Shower |
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