On New Year's Eve, Sirius — the brightest star in the night sky — is
above the southeastern horizon at 8:00pm (for mid-Northern latitudes)...
Scheduled air date: 1997 Dec 22-28
On New Year's Eve, Sirius — the brightest star in the night
sky — is
above the southeastern horizon at 8:00pm (for mid-Northern
latitudes)...
...but at local midnight — regardless of your location on
Earth — Sirius is directly on
the Meridian (an imaginary line running North-to-South, through
the Zenith overhead).
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