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Quadrantid Meteor Shower peaks at 12:50 UT. Produces up to 100 medium-speed meteors per hour. Radiant is in the constellation Boötes. Parent comet is unknown. Very favorable this year.
• The Quadrantids (Gary Kronk)
• Meteor Shower Calendar 2009 (IMO)
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First Quarter Moon at 11:56 UT.
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Mercury at greatest elongation, 19° east from Sun (evening sky) at 14h UT. Mag. -0.5, very low in the southwest 30 minutes after sunset.
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Earth at Perihelion (closest to Sun) at 15h UT. The Sun-Earth distance is 0.983273 a.u. or about 147.1 million kilometers.
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Moon near the Pleiades at 19h UT (evening sky).
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10
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Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) at 11h UT (357,497 km; 33.6').
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11
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Full Moon at 3:27 UT. The full Moon of January is called the Old Moon or the Moon After Yule in North American folklore.
• Full Moon Names (Wikipedia)
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12
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Moon near Beehive cluster (M44) at 5h UT.
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14
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Venus at greatest elongation, 47° east from Sun (evening sky) at 21h UT. Mag. -4.4.
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15
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Moon near Saturn at 7h UT (morning sky).
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Moon near Spica at 19h UT (morning sky).
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Last Quarter Moon at 2:46 UT.
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Mercury at inferior conjunction with the Sun at 16h UT. Passes into the morning sky (not visible).
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Moon very near Antares at 14h UT (morning sky). Occultation visible from central S. America (daytime).
• Occultation of Antares (IOTA)
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Moon at apogee (farthest from Earth) at 0h UT (distance 406,118 km; angular size 29.4').
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Jupiter at conjunction with the Sun at 6h UT. Passes into the morning sky (not visible).
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New Moon at 7:55 UT. Start of lunation 1065.
• Lunation Number (Wikipedia)
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26
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Annular Solar Eclipse visible along a narrow path across the Indian Ocean and parts of Indonesia. Partial phases visible from southern Africa and (around sunset) Australia and southeast Asia.
• Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 January 26 (NASA)
• Eclipses in 2009 (Sky & Telescope)
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Moon near Venus at 9h UT (46° from Sun, evening sky).
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All times Universal Time (UT). USA Eastern Standard Time = UT - 5 hours.
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