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Ian Musgrave & Peta O'Donohue
<reynella@mira.net> to ian.musgrave
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G'Day All
(sorry to recent subscribers I haven't replied to)

Night Owls will have a bit of a show in the very late evening of
Thursday 7 September and early morning Friday 8 September.

At roughly midnight on the 7th (roughly 10:00 pm in Perth), the Moon
will occult Uranus. This is strictly a telescopic occultation, as
Uranus's measly 5.7 magnitude will be drowned out by the Full Moons
light.
Still, even in a modest telescope Uranus's tiny disk should be
seen going behind the Moon (for local occulation times see here
http://home.mira.net/%7Ereynella/sky...sky.htm#Occult ). The Full
Moon will be high in the sky, and Uranus should be obvious in a telescope.

If you wait a few hours after that (roughly around 4:00 am except WA,
which is more like 2:00 am) , you can see a Partial Lunar Eclipse.
It won't be spectacular, only 19% of the Moon will be in Earths shadow,
but it will be better than the last eclipse we had, and fairly nice.
Local contact times for Australia are here
http://home.mira.net/%7Ereynella/sky...ky.htm#Eclipse .

Cheers! Ian

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