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the


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two queens in the morning light and
watch the Wanderers

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hey there stargazers I'm james oberg
director the key to Silverpop

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planetarium in Gainesville Florida


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and on dinner I guess stronger for the
Cincinnati Observatory

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the brilliant planet Venus has dominated
the morning sky for most of this year

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and soon a skinny crescent moon is going
to snuggle right up next to be nice

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be sure to go out before dawn Sunday May
25th and look

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east to find the moon just above beans a
great chance to use the moon as a finder

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for identifying a plant let's show you


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okay we have our sky set up facing


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East before dawn next week and almost
exactly do

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East about a just above the horizon Hill
easily spot a very bright point white

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the planet Venus penis has been in the
morning sky since January

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she reached her peak brightness in early
February has been demean slowly ever

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since


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as she steadily gets farther and farther
away from us

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let's back up to early February and
notice for Venus was in the morning sky

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back then


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were set up to about an hour before
sunrise February 12 worker Venus was

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she was much farther to the right in the
southeast

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almost 40 degrees to the right heaviest
let's go forward in time a month to

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march twelfth


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penises shifted a little bit to the
north about two degrees

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now another month to april twelfth and
there's a big change

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almost fifteen degrees more to the north
let's do it again another month to mate

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well


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and businesses now almost twenty degrees
farther north

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what's going on here here's where it was


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at about an hour before sunrise in
February then in March

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then in April and now in many and watch
how much BS will move over the next two

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weeks


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May 14th May 16 may 18


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May 28 hate here comes the moon May 22nd


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moon closer May 24 closer yet


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and may twenty-fifth a really skinny 26
day old moon is about two and a half

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degrees above beans


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the moon is an important part of this
discussion about the sideways movement

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have been its


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because penis is shifting its position
northward about one moon with each day

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one move with is about half a degree
venus is sometimes called the queen of

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the planet's


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but there's another queen in this area
at the sky just about Venus

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look up and to the left Venus in the
pre-dawn sky

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over the next few weeks and you easily
pick out the zig-zag WR stars that marks

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the Queen


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Cassie appear now when we say the word
Casio PO

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we can mean several different things it
could refer to these five stars making a

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kind of W in the sky


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or it could mean the astronomical
constellation Cassiopeia

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which is a weirdly shaped box in the sky
that looks like this

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remember that astronomical
constellations are

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arbitrarily defined areas at the sky
they are not all the same size or shape

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and they can be really confusing it's
also important to remember that the

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official constellations that astronomers
use

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were developed for mapping the sky and
we're not defined in till nineteen third

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or the word Cassie Appiah could refer to
the mythological

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figure are the Queen a beach in ethiopia
at least

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that's how the Greek saw the section in
the sky many the consolations predate

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the Greeks and I


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thousands of years old just but every
culture throughout history created their

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own mythological figures


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and selected star patterns which they
used to mark them out in the sky

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how about the evening sky we have
anything interesting going on

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after sunset actually we do in the
evening sky

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Jupiter will show you how it moves over
the next few weeks

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we have our skies setup facing west just
after it starts to get dark

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jupiter is the brightest light out there
with the break Gemini twins Castor and

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Pollux about


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will start on May 18 and advance a week
at a time

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may twenty-fifth June 1st


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a four-day-old moon is nearby June a


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June 15 notice the jupiter is rapidly
moving

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eastward in the sky from below pollack's
on may eighteenth

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to nearly in line with the Stars by June
21st

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an even closer by june 20 8 keep
watching each night as Jupiter in Gemini

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will soon be lost in the glare


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some as you keeping looking up


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weld


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