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The summer astronomical action heats up this week, as the waning crescent Moon joins the inner planets at dawn. This week’s action comes hot on the tails of the northward solstice which occurred this past weekend, which fell on June 21st in 2014, marking the start of astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern. This also means that the ecliptic angle at dawn for mid-northern latitude observers will run southward from the northeast early in the morning sky. (…)
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© David Dickinson for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Post tags: 2014 astronomy, dawn astronomy, june astronomy, mercury occultation, ramadan 2014, venus conjunction
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