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[rootofnewt]

Is it dark where you are? Is the sky clear? Are you in the northern hemisphere (I need to get coordinates from friends in the southern hemisphere so I can look at the sky where you are on heavens-above sometime).

Go outside.

Look east.

See the moon? Okay. Just to the right of it (slightly south, slightly higher in altitude) is Saturn. Isn't that pretty?

Look to the left a little distance. That bright yellow star is Capella, in Auriga. Now, travel in a straight line from Capella to Saturn. Make a right angle upward. That bright star completing the triangle is Aldebaran, in Taurus. Isn't that pretty?

Now, you can make another triangle. This one is also right. Go from Saturn to the moon, turn 90 degrees up. That star? Elnath, also in Taurus. Two pretty triangles right there in the East.

I just thought some of you might enjoy this. Now I'm going to go see if I can spot Uranus or Neptune before they set. I think Aquila is also setting, or I'd try to spot the comet Kudo-Fujikawa.

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[krasota.livejournal.com]

The moon is so bright here that I have no hope of seeing 5.5 mag Uranus. In fact, I can barely see 3.05 Dabih and even Fomalhaut (1.17mag) is lost in the western haze.

[lachupacabra.livejournal.com]

hey...this doesnt have anything to do with the stars
but my sister wanted me to ask you if youd ever heard
of jordan rubin? you can get his book for free (you do
have to pay postage) on his website. if you cant swing
the postage, let me know, she'll send you her copy.

i cant stop thinking about how yucky youre feeling
& how fucked up it is. i feel so bad & i wish there
was something i could do.
*hug*