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January 26, 2014
...Celestial hugging (click here)
Tuesday morning, see if you can spot Venus just to the lower left of the thin waning crescent moon in the very low southeast sky about 45 minutes before sunrise. Venus is only 28 million miles away and through a small telescope or pair of binoculars appears as a very thin crescent. Go for it, early morning risers.
(Lynch is an amateur astronomer and author of the book, "Stars, a Month by Month Tour of the Constellations." Contact him at mikewlynch@comcast.net.)
