SKY & TELESCOPE’s SKYWATCHER’S BULLETIN - June 13, 2005

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Welcome to S&T's Skywatcher's Bulletin. More about the items below appears
on our Web site, SkyandTelescope.com, at the URLs provided. (If a link
doesn't work, just type the URL manually into your Web browser.) Clear
skies!
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JUPITER'S MOON-BUNCH TONIGHT

This evening, June 13th, Jupiter's moons Io, Europa, and Callisto appear
bunched together. They'll appear closest around 9:43 p.m. Eastern Daylight
Time, as illustrated in the June SKY & TELESCOPE, page 59. Or use our
handy interactive Jupiter's Moons displayer:

http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/article_830_1.asp

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TODAY'S EXOPLANET DISCOVERY

Read about this afternoon's announcement of the newly discovered, "most
Earthlike yet" extrasolar planet -- an apparent Earth-Uranus hybrid
orbiting the 10th magnitude red-dwarf star Gliese 876 in Aquarius:

http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1530_1.asp

For telescope users with a highly detailed star atlas, you can find the
star glowing orange at right ascension 22h 53m 13s, declination -14d 15'
13" (2000.0), in the bottom of Aquarius's water bucket (as SKY & TELESCOPE
draws the constellation) currently low in the southeast just before the
first light of dawn.

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COMET TEMPEL 1 COUNTDOWN

It's just 20 days until NASA's Deep Impact mission blasts the icy surface
of Comet Tempel 1. The comet is still quite faint (10th magnitude) in the
evening sky, appearing large but with a low surface brightness. Details
and finder charts:

http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/highlights/article_1522_1.asp

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HANDY ALMANAC

Did you know that your local sunrise and sunset times, moonrise and
moonset times, and much else are custom-calculated and displayed when you
go to SkyandTelescope.com? See the yellow/green/gray bar at the top of
most pages. Enter your location and time zone just once, and then it works
by itself:

http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/almanac/

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SKY AT A GLANCE

Venus, Saturn, and Mercury are gathering closer together low in the
evening twilight this week. The Moon is first-quarter on June 14th and
passes Jupiter and Spica on the 15th and 16th. On the 18th, telescopes
reveal a 7th-magnitude "false satellite" next to Saturn. See:

http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance

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