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jerome jerome
 
February 04, 2009 05:08 AM

What was in the sky tonight?
It looked like a really really bright star, why was it so bright tonight?

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jmbrown jmbrown
 
 February 04, 2009 07:04 AM
Tonight (Feb. 3), the waxing gibbous moon jumped over the the Pleiades star cluster, which are the dipper-shape pattern of stars marking the shoulder on the constellation Taurus the Bull.

http://flickr.com/photos/30229322@N04/2835184216/

Here's a video of the February night sky: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/tonights_sky/show.php?month=february&year;=2009
Source(s):
http://www.earthsky.org/skywatching/
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/tonights_sky/



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morriss003 morriss003
 
February 04, 2009 07:18 AM
"For the first three months of 2009 Venus will be visible in the evening sky, gradually becoming fainter and closer to the Sun during March. Its phase will decrease from a half-Moon in January to a thin crescent in March, as it approaches inferior conjunction on March 28."
From http://www.starfieldobservatory.com/coming.htm
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fjpoblam fjpoblam
 
February 04, 2009 04:48 PM
When Venus and Jupiter and Mars and Mercury wander near each other they put off quite a show. Venus is always the brightest, of course, Jupiter second.

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