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hairs a pairs a planet's air stargazers

I'm Deanery guess astronomer for the
Cincinnati Observatory

have you ever seen or even heard of the
Beehive cluster

and I'm James all very director the key
cassava pop planetarium in Gainesville

Florida

next week the two brightest planets
Jupiter and Venus will have an

early morning super sketchy right next
to the Beehive

hand Mars and Saturn will pass each
other in the evening twilight

let's show you we ever sky set up facing
south west after sunset next week on

eighty and as it gets darker appear
bright lights

will be the first things you see over
here the upper one is the ring planet

Saturn

and about 5 degrees down into the right
is a reddish

orange planet Mars the look about the
same brightness

but slightly different colors not long
ago we showed you how to use your pinky

finger to measure the size the moon

remember the moon is always smaller than
you pinky finger

one now we want you to use your whole
fist and holding over Saturn

and Mars what do you see your fist will
completely cover both of them with

plenty left over

Saturn Mars or about 5 degrees apart
while your fist covers about twice that

much

or ten degrees at the sky get out after
sunset each night for the next few weeks

and watch this pair of parapet eggplant

for the first few nights though actually
get closer each night

but after a week or so they'll separate
again and show you why they're called

planets

there the wonders up the sky to the left
of Mars and Saturn

are the stars of Scorpius the Scorpion 3
along here

form the head and long curving line of
stars down here

form the body the break red star Antares
marx's heart

what about his claws you may be asking
well

Saturn lies right between them these
claw stars have some %uh james's

favorite names to pronounce

so I'll defer to him tell you all about

the upper claw is supranational mauling

which actually means northern CAW and
the lower one is a Belgian OB

the southern claw seven ish Molly puts
out two hundred seventy times as much

light

as our son while zyuganov's newbie I
just love the sound of that

is closer to us but not as powerful so
on august eighteenth just after it gets

dark

look south west for Saturn and Mars with
Scorpios off to the left

and Terry's the break red heart and the
cost RZ bashfully

and signaled snooping what about this
bee hive we mentioned earlier

let's take a look at Deans favorite time
the early morning

not all K

here we are facing East well before
sunrise

and depending upon exactly how early to
get up what you seem a very

winters Orion is in the south eastern
sky and castor & Pollux

are of two is left but the really big
thing we drag you outta bed to see is

this bright para stars below Castor and
Pollux

their eyes about and hour and a half
before sunrise but once they're up high

enough to be seen

there much brighter than anything else
out there the left one

Venus is about seven times brighter than
Jupiter

the other one yep here are two more
planets wandering across the sky

and the really neat thing about this is
they are insanely close together

about one quarter but agree apart a
super sketchy

if there ever was one be sure you don't
miss this if you go out the next day

penis will have moved almost a degree
farther away from Jupiter

next summer at the ended June penis and
you per will get close again

but will be twice as far apart as
they'll be next week

so now is the time and I'm sure you've
been wondering about that be hyping

mentioned earlier

well if you look at Jupiter and Venus to
the pair binoculars

you'll see a swarm of stars off to the
left to the planet this beehive is a

cluster of stars that lies about 600
light years away

if you have clear skies and good eyes
this cluster is

easy to see but most diverse don't live
under good skies

so take this opportunity to find a
beehive

so its Saturn and Mars in the evening in
the West and Jupiter Venus

in the Beehive in the morning in the
east keep looking up

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