On the evening of February 28th, the thin crescent Moon will be below Saturn. The next night, March 1st, the Moon will be above Saturn. (Shown half an hour after sunset for mid-Northern latitudes.)
Scheduled air date: 1998 Feb 23-Mar 01
On the evening of February 28th, the thin crescent Moon will be
below Saturn. The next night, March 1st, the Moon will be above
Saturn. (Shown half an hour after sunset for mid-Northern
latitudes.)
Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, is directly on the
Meridian (an imaginary line running North-to-South, through the
Zenith overhead) at about 8:00 pm on March 1st. This is four
hours earlier in the evening than Sirius' midnight
"transit" (crossing of the Meridian) on New Year's Day.
(Note that four hours is one-sixth of a day, and the two months
since January 1st is one-sixth of a year!)
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