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follow the arc to Artur this and hit a
 
spike

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to spike hey there sorry gazers and in
 
re guess astronomer for the Cincinnati

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Observatory

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

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Florida

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we're gonna do a little star hopping
 
this week and discover new stars

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and constellations are jumping off point
 
will be the Big Dipper

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the Big Dipper the most recognizable
 
star pattern visible most to the year

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will be your guide to the heavens

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first it all points to the North Star
 
then shows the way to the bright orange

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star

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terrace then lead us to the brilliant
 
blue star spike a

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ever will even be a planted along the
 
way lets show

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okay we have our April skies set up to
 
10 p.m. facing north East

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where we see the Big Dipper high above
 
the North Star

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its couples for water it be pouring
 
right internal dipper

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and overflowing onto the ground ball up
 
if we shoot an arrow through the two

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stars on the end of the big dippers Cup

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and continue that line in a run smack
 
dab into the North Star

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now let's use the big dippers handle to
 
find two more wonderful stars

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and a planet simply draw an imaginary
 
line through the handle the Big Dipper

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an extended out along the curve or arc
 
and your

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arc your way to the bright star Park
 
Terrace so in other words repeat after

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me

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follow the arc to work towards follow
 
the actor terrace

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pay it's pretty catchy thanks just a
 
little something I came up with are

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tourists is the brightest star in the
 
constellation below tease the herds

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his outline looks more like a narrow
 
kite or an ice cream cone on its side

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without doing that scooping ice cream is
 
falling on your after you

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art Park Terrace keep going straighten
 
out the arc a bit

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and to the right you run into the bright
 
blue star called spike a

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spike is the brightest star in the
 
constellation Virgo the maiden

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she's standing operate and covers most
 
to the eastern sky

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their catchy saying to find spike a of
 
course

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first we follow the arc torturous her
 
then hit a spike

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to spike Wow at a lot less catchy

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yeah I now but maybe it's so bad you
 
remember anyway

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let's compare arc tourists and Spike it
 
to

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our star the Sun arc turns is relatively
 
close to us

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only 37% light years away Spyker

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is about seven times farther around 261
 
like yours

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the Sun on the other hand is only eight
 
light minutes away

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now what size these three stars up

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the Sun is about eight hundred
 
sixty-five thousand miles in diameter

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that's large enough for 109 hurts to
 
struct

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and and across its with but that's
 
nothing compared to spike

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which is over seven times wider than our
 
Sun and our terrace

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which is over 25 times wider this

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artwork Torres and Spike to spike a
 
trick works

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every spring but this year we have
 
something extra

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you're probably wondering about that
 
extra point light above spike

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it's really bright and a little red so

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let's follow the arc torturous spike to
 
Spyker

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and then motor up to mars %ah

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the red planet you probably noticed mars
 
in the evening sky

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rising in the east after sunset not only
 
does it have a distinctive color

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but it doesn't went well as much as the
 
stars do earlier this month marshals

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that its closest point to the year

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but now the earth stone leaving mars
 
behind you know mars is almost 60

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million miles away

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you'll still be able see it in the
 
evening skies for the restive 2014

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since mars a planet it wanders around
 
the background stars

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it just happens to be in the right place
 
this year to crash are

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arc to work tourists and Spike to spike
 
a party n

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adds a little extra spice your evening
 
star gazing

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cell this spring get outside and let the
 
Big Dipper be your guide

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the two stars on the end of the spoon
 
will take you to the North Star

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and the curve stars in the handle will
 
let you art tartar us

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hit a spike to Spyker and motor up to
 
mars

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and as you spin around the galaxy this
 
week remember to

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heat look enough

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Duke E

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