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trick-or-treating with us sevens
sinister sisters

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hey there stargazers I'm demery guess
astronomer for the Cincinnati

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Observatory


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

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Florida


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we're here to help you find your way
around the sky tonight because Halloween

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greeting cards often depict a witch


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riding a broom in front of a full moon
many people have the mistaken notion

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that there's a full moon


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every year at Halloween when in fact we
won't have a full moon on Halloween

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again


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until 2020 this Halloween the gibbous
moon

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will be trick-or-treating in the sky
with mars Jupiter and Mercury

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but they're is something you can see in
the night sky

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every Halloween that is even if tear and
definitely spookier

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because every Halloween the plea
eighties the Seven Sisters

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fly high across the sky that night let's
show you

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okay we're facing East before dawn


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and Jupiter and Mercury will be visible
Jupiter will be very bright

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and you can use the Big Dipper to are
tart terrace and then march

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onto mercury then look south west about
an hour after sunset Monday night the 27

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four days before Halloween


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first thing you'll notice is a young
crescent moon

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there's not enough time for the moon to
reach the four-phase before Halloween

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so no full moon for the which to fly
across this year

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just Simmons left you'll see the bright
reddish orange planet Mars

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marceau remain low in the southwest
evening sky for the rest of the year

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as earth leaves mars farther and farther
behind as we both

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orbit the Sun let's advance one day and
the moonwalk fatten up a bit

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and move above Mars on Tuesday evening
let's go one more day to wednesday

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evening


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the moon's a bit fatter and a bit
farther from mars

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Thursday night the moon is waxing more
and has moved farther

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East notice how much the moon moves from
one night to the next

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Friday night Halloween the moon is still
a long way from fall

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but they're is a hollow weenie object in
this evening sky

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let's turn and look northeast and a plea
eighties are just rising but wire the

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plea eighties and Halloween LinkedIn so
many people's minds

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let's quote Jack Horkheimer on this one


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too many people long ago when the please
reach their highest point at midnight

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it was a signal that this was the time
of the year two honor the debt

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many people's belief that a great inch
in Cataclysm occurred when the pleadings

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were overhead at midnight such as the
great biblical flood

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or the thinking about lantus the belief
was so widespread that in mexico

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the Pyramid of the Sun tayo t work was
built to align with the setting up the

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plea eighties


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as we're all the city's West running
streets an ancient Greece

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several temples were lined up with the
rising and setting up the Seven Sisters

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the Aztec and Mayan not only believe
that the world would come to an and on

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one of these plea eighties overhead at
midnight nights

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but we're convinced that the world had
already been destroyed

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and recreated four times on just such a
night

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should we rename them the seven sinister
sisters

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although the plate is no longer reach
their highest point

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that is calm in a exactly at midnight on
Halloween

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as they did in 1000 BC nevertheless


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they're still very high in the southeast
every Halloween at midnight

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as a modern reminder that ancestors were
deeply moved

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and affected by the cosmos and use many


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cosmic coincidence is to determine
important religious

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in ceremonial events in their life and
for what we can see this year

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get outside and look up after sunset at
the young Mounir mars next week

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and get outside this Halloween or any
Halloween at midnight

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look high and East for the beautiful
cluster stars

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known as the pleats and the Seven
Sisters or

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as Jack like to call my Halloween the
seventh sinister sisters

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and as you look at them remind yourself
that these same stars

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have been seen by thousands and
generations we've gone before us

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use all them as very important in
determining their own special days of

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the year


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when the honor their day and although it
might be a bit creepy

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don't you agree that seven sisters at
midnight or even better than

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performing Halloween I mean seven which
is before midnight

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keep looking up


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way


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