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--=====================_188644109==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This Week's Planet Roundup, from NatureNB 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 --=====================_188644109==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <body> <b><u>This Week's Planet Roundup, from NatureNB<br><br> </u></b>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> <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> --=====================_188644109==.ALT--
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