[Chaos-l] Venus and Beehive

[Jon Stewart-Taylor]

Hi all.  According to Stellarium and Guy Ottewell, Venus will be 0.7  
deg NNE of the center of M44, the Beehive Cluster, tonight.  Very nice  
through binoculars, and an almost perfect use for the sort of small- 
goto-scope we're used to telling people not to buy.  I've got an ETX  
60 with a 3-deg FOV which should be just right.

If any of you picture-taking types want to send me a picture, i'll  
link it in the next newsletter.

J.
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Jon Stewart-Taylor:  joncst at earthlink.net
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