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the


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those short but starry night some summer
are about to arrive

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hey there stargazers I'm james oberg
director the key cassava plop

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planetarium in Gainesville Florida


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nom de Marie guess stronger for the
Cincinnati Observatory

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let us be your guides to the sky summer
officially begins for the Northern

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Hemisphere on Saturday June 21st


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at 651 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time


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but the skies are already loaded with
wonderful summer constellations and

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planets


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let's show you okay we've got her sky
set up for this week

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and next 10 p.m. facing north where
you'll see the Little Dipper and it's

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very highest


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above the North Star in fact the
Northstars the start the

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ended the handle the Little Dipper now
boulder pres not nearly as large

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or bright as the Big Dipper but if you
have dark skies

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you can see it handle is drawn from the
North Star through two very dim stars

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which then connects the two more dim
stars to drop our the ball

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and then another dim star and finally a
slightly brighter star name coach abt

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finishes off the ball the Little Dipper


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now the Big Dipper is a much brighter
and larger star pattern

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and is directly to the Little Dipper is
left in the northwest

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four stars markets Cup and three stars
markets handle

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and once you found the Big Dipper you
can shoot an arrow through its hand or

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across the sky


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almost overhead and down into the
western sky to find one of the top three

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brightest stars in the sky


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Arc'teryx is the brightest star a boat
is the herdsmen

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which looks something like a kite then
if you extend that arrow from our

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terrace


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it might land on Spike a the brightest
star Virgo

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now I say might because this year


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there 3.2 flight that will make good
targets for your arrow

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the light in the middle is the star
spike a in this that I a constellation

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Virgo


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forty degrees to spike as right as the
noticeably brighter

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red planet Mars then about 25 degrees to
the left a spike it is the ringed planet

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Saturn


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now saturn has also brighter than spike
and if you look carefully

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saturn has slightly more yellow an
appearance take a look

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and see for yourself so you're probably
asking which is which

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n how can I be sure well the moon will
be doing it

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pointer thing over the next week or so
cell is let's start on May 31st

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with a three day old moon below Jupiter
then on june third and fourth

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the moon will bracket Regulus the
brightest star in Leo the Lion

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then on June 7 Mars will be just above a
waxing gibbous moon

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but Mars will be bright enough to
compete with the light up the moon

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the next night the 8th June a bigger and
brighter moon will be just to the right

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of spike


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and the moon will probably overwhelm
spike a on the 9th and 10th

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the moon will be on either side up
Saturday and the next night

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a nearly full moon will be above and
Terry's the brightest star of summer

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scorpion


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if you continue turning and face East


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you'll see the three incredibly bright
stars which marked the point

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up the summer triangle the brightest is
Vega in Lyra the harp

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the second brightest Altair inequality
Eagle

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and third brightest Dennett in Cygnus
the Swan

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and every year as summer begins we
always see these three celestial

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Dazzlers


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rising over the eastern horizon
announcing but summer is here

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so there you have it every direction you
looked you'll see wonderful stars

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as we await the beginning of summer 2014
in the south

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Scorpius in the east the three brilliant
stars on the summer triangle

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Vega Dana an Altair in the north


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both the little and big dippers then
following the handle the Big Dipper in

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the southwest


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are terrorists and then spike a with the
planet mars

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and Saturn on either side and finally


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hugging the western horizon jupiter
below Leo the Lion

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both beating us farewell and in the
morning sky

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in the east beats is still blazing away
and will daily approach the plea

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eighties


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to give you a bit of a preview of all
Scots

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summer nights are short but this
summer's going to show you what's up

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wonderful story cites so I remember to
keep

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looking up


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