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Bristol helps celebrate the Year of the Horse at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery The University of Bristol Botanic Garden and Chinese Lion Dance Troupe will help members of the public to celebrate Chinese New Year this weekend [Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February] when they take part in an action packed p...
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NASA Day of Remembrance
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NASA Observes Day of Remembrance Jan. 31 NASA will pay will tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other NASA colleagues, during the agency's Day of Remembrance on Friday, Jan. 31. NASA's Day of Remembrance honors members of the NASA family who lost the...
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Mercury: at magnitude -0.4, starts the month in the constellation of Sagittarius. Mercury is in conjunction with Venus (6.5° separated) at 22:02 UT, 7th January. (On January 16th, RA=20h43m07s Dec=-20°11.0' (J2000) Distance=1.289AU Phase k=92% Diameter=5.2") Venus: is at magnit...
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Total lunar eclipse : January 28, 1888
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Title: Total eclipse of the moon : January 28, 1888 Authors: Pickering, E. C. Some additional interest has lately been given to the observation of total eclipses of the moon by the suggestion of certain observations for which such occasions are particularly advantageous. The occurrence of a total...
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Unexplained lunar transit 1912
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Frank B. Harris saw an object in front of the moon which threw a shadow on the lunar surface. He described it as an "intensely black body about 250 miles long and fifty wide, allowing 2,000 miles from tip of cusp to cusp". He suggested it may have been the result of a volcanic eruption Read more...
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India Republic Day
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In India, Republic Day commemorates the date on which the Constitution of India came into force replacing the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India on 26 January 1950. Read more
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Partial solar eclipse - January 2009
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A partial eclipse of the sun will be visible from South Africa on Monday, 26 January 2009, the South African Astronomical Observatory said. The eclipse would start at 7am and end about 9.30am. At 8.15am the eclipse would be at its greatest. The best view of the partial eclipse would be from Cape Town,...
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Dydd Santes Dwynwen
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Dydd Santes Dwynwen, literally meaning 'Day of Saint Dwynwen' in Welsh, is considered to be the Welsh equivalent to Valentine's Day and is celebrated on 25 January every year. It celebrates Dwynwen, the Welsh Saint of love. 25 January is the feast day of Saint Dwynwen. Read more
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gamma Ursae Minorids
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P. Jenniskens, SETI Institute; and Esko Lyytinen, Helsinki, Finland, report that six Finnish observers using wide-angle video cameras (limiting magnitude +1) observed a possible outburst of gamma Ursae Minorids, a newly discovered stream (cf. CBET 1938) that until now was only known from rada...
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Uttarayana festival
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The Uttarayana festival starts from Wednesday 15th January 2014 and ends on Wednesday 16th July 2014 Read more
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Makara Sankranti
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Makara Sankranti is one of the most auspicious occasions for the Hindus, and is celebrated in almost all parts of India and Nepal in a myriad of cultural forms, with great devotion, fervour, and gaiety. It is a harvest festival. Read more Happy Makar Sankranti - Pongal 2014 Greetings [spoiler][vide...
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Burghead Fire festival
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Burghead Hogmanay Opinions differ as to the roots of the ancient festival of the Burning of the Clavie, condemned in the eighteenth century as "an abominable heathenish practice". But even in the third millennium it still goes on... Pictish, Celtic, Viking or Roman in origin, the Burni...
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Mercury: at magnitude 0.7, starts the month in the constellation of Libra. The Moon is close to Mercury (Separation 5.44°) on the 2nd. Mercury is at aphelion (distance to sun: 0.4667 AU) on the 21st. Mercury is at superior conjunction on the 29th. The planet is in conjunction (4.6° separated) in Rig...
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Supernova 2008in
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A magnitude 15.1 Type II supernova, 2008in, has been discovered by D. Denisenko and S. Korotkiy on the 29th December, 2008, in the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61 (NGC 4303) in the constellation Virgo. The supernova is located 102" east and 22" north from the center of the galaxy. Posit...
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Bona Dea
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Bona Dea ("The Good Goddess") was a divinity in ancient Roman religion. She was associated with chastity and fertility in women, healing, and the protection of the Roman state and people. Bona Dea's Roman cults were led by the Vestal Virgins, and her provincial cults by virgin or matron p...
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