Astronomical Society of Las Cruces
Horsehead Nebula (K. Benson)
January, 2009
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New Year's Day
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Telescope owners clinic
MoonGaze
Quadrantid meteor shower peak

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 1st Qtr.
 Earth at Perihelion
Mercury at greatest Eastern elongation		 5
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 Full Moon
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Venus at greatest Eastern elongation (47°)
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Moon near Saturn
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 3rd Qtr. 
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Martin Luther King Birthday Celebrated
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Mercury at inferior conjunction

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White Sands School S.P.
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ASLC Monthly Meeting
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DSO Upham
Jupiter at conjunction
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New Moon
Annular Solar eclipse (Indian Ocean)
Chinese New Year 		27

 
 
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MoonGaze