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What we learned when Venus crossed the sun

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Staying up all night with the fishes

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Jupiter's jaunt behind the moon

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Try to tune in to another meteor shower

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Equinox. Equal? NOT!

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What's in a name? History!

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Star spangled with Spica

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A deep partial lunar eclipse

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Mira on the downside

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Total solar eclipse and Perseid meteor shower

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Eye to eye with Mars and both inner planets at dichotomy

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Venus by the lion's tail

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Two more faint objects at opposition together

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About Earth's aphelion

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Two asteroids at opposition

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Mercury retreats and what the American colonists saw when they didn't

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The moon in the room

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The moon by our evening planets

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Three planets in one constellation

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Three planets in the west and a meteor shower on the radio

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Comparing the moon's sides

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Memories of the moon and something mysterious

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Mission accomplished and hungry for galaxy hunting

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Picking out Pluto--and easier things to see

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Constellations and asterisms

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Planetary proximity and plagues

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International Dark Sky Week

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The Beehive and the Air Pump

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A south pole sways toward us

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Saturn moves to the morning; Mercury approaches its best

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Sirius before sunset

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When darkness is called a defect

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Total lunar eclipse and tracking two variable stars

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Total lunar eclipse preview

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Annular eclipse; synodic periods

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The animals around Orion

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George's Star

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The moon in the middle of monthly meetings with the Pleiades

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What's that by Jupiter? Wasat!

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A wonderful star-spotting opportunity

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The Local Group

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2026 astronomy preview

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Vera C. Rubin

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Solstice summary

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A not-so-great greatest elongation; three bright objects in a group; Geminids

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Getting the light just right

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Many movements to follow

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What we learned from the Leonids

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Aiming at the Andromeda Galaxy

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Close but no conjunction; Pleiades legends

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Events to choose from all night long

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New moon meteor shower

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Mars passes a quadruple star system; try to catch Comet Lemmon

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Saturn Nebula

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Deep sky sights in the celestial swan

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Titan and Triton

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Partial solar eclipse and eclipse lists

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Naming the distant galaxies and nebulae

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Total lunar eclipse and a vision test

60

Class divisions and meteor showers

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Here's Huygens

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Martian ice caps

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Perseids possible already

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The Great Square and the Summer Triangle

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Pluto and its companions

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The fear of germs from space

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No gold star for a.i.

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Appreciating Galileo's mistake

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The centaur and the wolf

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Midnight sun. Twilight, too.

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Mesmerizing Mira

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Regulus Revelations

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Semi-circle Mercury and solstice on Mars

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Can you see stars in the daytime?

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A monstrous zodiac omission

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Not a planet and not a star

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Seeing very new and very old moons

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Hair way up there

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Eccentricity

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Sideral and solar days

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Color changing stars

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Partial solar eclipse and counting lunar months

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Moon farthest south and equinox egg absurdity

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Total lunar eclipse and astronomy times

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Why we can see nebulae

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Ringless Saturn--out of sight

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Orbital undulations affecting the lunar looking

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Change of direction

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Air in the way

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The dog nights of winter

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Pondering predictions for the Blaze Star

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How the celestial twins are half-brothers

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Perihelion has passed

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Quick! See some quadrantids

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Plenty of planet watching all night

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Longest solar days of the year

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Genesis of the Geminids

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Mars pauses at the beehive

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The southern fish

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Venus in the archer's bow