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January 21
One of the images I would like to create from the solar eclipse in April is a sequence
shot of the Sun from beginning to end of the eclipse, but I don't currently have the
software to do that, so I decided to attempt something like that in everyone's favorite
presentation software.
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January 21
The famous variable star T Coronae Borealis, the "Blaze Star" (not Blaze Starr, the
stripper :), is predicted to erupt and become a bright nova sometime in 2024, so we
are going to periodically check in on the constellation to see what T CBr is doing.
Sky & Telescope featured articles on the star in
2016 and
2006.
The latest announcement from the American
Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) describes the fluctuations the
star has undergone in the last year that strongly suggest it should erupt sometime
in the next 10 months or so.
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January 13
The two-day old Moon is already high above the western horizon owing to the steep
angle of the ecliptic. Saturn is not too far above the Moon but I was not able
to catch him in the scene along with the horizon at the zoom setting I used.
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January 11
Venus and Mercury continue to dance in the dawn sky. Here they are just under
12° apart, both suspended about 1°30' north of the ecliptic. By the end
of the month, Mercury will have fallen back toward the Sun enough to meet up with dim
Mercury.
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January 8
Venus and Mercury are joined by the crescent Moon this morning, but I got out too
late to catch the background stars, so this is a view about 50 minutes before sunrise.
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January 5
Venus and Mercury make a pretty sight in the morning sky above and to the left of
the stars of Scorpius. I zoomed in a little to get a more detailed look compared
to most of the other images.
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January 2
The early evening sky is still dominated by Jupiter. He is joined in Aries by
Uranus, and in the next zodiacal constellation down toward the east, Taurus, the
brightest asteroid, Vesta, is just past opposition in late December 2023.
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