[NatureNS] From NatureNB - This Week's Night Sky

From: Angela Joudrey* <aljoudrey@eastlink.ca>
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:53:25 -0400
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VENUS =5BV=E9nus=5D (magnitude -4=2E1) shines brightly in the southeast =
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telescope much later in the night=2E It gains its highest altitude in th=
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south around 3 a=2Em=2E=A0 Saturn=27s rings are 10=B0 from edge on and r=
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