==== IN THE SKY THIS WEEK ===
The Full Moon is Tuesday December 5.
The evening sky is now devoid of bright planets.
Saturn can be seen reasonably easily in the early morning sky near Regulus, the brightest star in Leo.
By the end of the week, keen-eyed observers with a flat, unobscured horizon can see Mercury, Mars and Jupiter just above the horizon half an hour before Sunrise, a foretaste of the rare triple massing next week.
For further information see:
http://home.mira.net/~reynella/skywatch/ssky.htm
Quote:
Ancient Moon 'computer' revisited
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
The delicate workings at the heart of a 2,000-year-old analogue computer have been revealed by scientists.
The Antikythera Mechanism, discovered more than 100 years ago in a Roman shipwreck, was used by ancient Greeks to display astronomical cycles.
Using advanced imaging techniques, an Anglo-Greek team probed the remaining fragments of the complex geared device.
The results, published in the journal Nature, show it could have been used to predict solar and lunar eclipses.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6191462.stm
