The January Night Sky
Elusive Mercury in the evening sky and the chance of seeing some Quadrantid shooting stars gets
the Solar System’s new year off to a good start. Deep-sky observers are well catered for too, with a
top-notch open cluster in the spotlight and a tour of winter nebulae.
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ese night-sky pages have been researched and designed with the assistance of Software Bisque’s
eSkyX Professional Edition Astronomy Software.
A young Moon exhibited a slender, seven-per cent-illuminated crescent in this ne portrait of our satellite shot on 30 September
2019 from São Paulo, Brazil.
ViewThe January Night Sky
January 2021
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