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At sunset tonight, look to the west. Venus and a slender crescent moon will be close together in the constellation Pisces.

This is a chart at 17:21 (sunset) localtime.

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Revellers crowded Beijing's ancient Bell and Drum Tower Plaza for festivities to welcome the Year of the Pig on Saturday night.
Serving as a public timepiece during the 15th century Ming Dynasty, the drums and bell now only warm up for special occasions like the New Year festival.
At midnight, the bell was sounded 108 times, which is an auspicious number in China.
Despite the cold weather and crowds, hundreds lined up for a chance to strike the bell, which is a sure sign for good luck for the year to come.

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 Astronomers in Moray are hosting a public gathering tonight to view "the ringed planet".
Members of Moray's Astronomy Club, Sigma, will have a selection of large telescopes at the ready, and will offer interested people plenty of advice and information about the night skies over the local area.
Taking centre stage will be the ringed planet, Saturn, which at the moment is at its brightest and highest in the evening sky.
Stunning star clusters and galaxies also illuminate the sky at this time of year.
Anyone interested in attending should wrap up well. The event will take place just inside the entrance to the Gliding Club site at Easterton Airfield in Birnie, just south of Elgin. The gates will be open by 7.30pm.

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The Chinese New Year starts today.  2007 is the  Year of Pig or DingHai.
The new year begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar.

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Mira, Omicron Ceti  is a variable star with a period of about 332 days. Mira is currently rapidly rising in brightness and may be  visible to the naked eye.
It will reach its maximum brightness in March so watching it over the next few weeks should show a noticeable change in visibility.

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For the Chinese, this 2007 is the Year of the Pig, which effectively starts on the Sunday of February 18.  This is the time when millions of overseas Chinese will go back home to their families to spend the holiday and have a wonderful dinner together.  This is a time when every Chinatown all over the globe will be filled with much merrymaking, dramatic fireworks, dancing dragons, singing gongs, and happy smiles.
No doubt, the Lunar New Year is the most important holiday in history for Chinese, with the celebration taking as long as 15 days.  Even people who don't have Chinese blood in them have come to celebrate and respect this holiday.  Every year, Chinese spend lavishly on these performance arts in the hopes of bringing good luck and prosperity.

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A brilliant white jewel has risen up out of the sunset in the last couple of months, to blaze in the stupendous blue-and-orange setting of the clear twilight sky. It's getting higher every week and will attract more and more attention, at least among those who take time to glance up from the mundane world to the gorgeous spectacles beyond.
The jewel is the planet Venus, often called the Evening Star, as if there were no other. It deserves the title. Venus outshines every celestial object but the sun and moon, and it's five times brighter than the next leading object (Jupiter, which currently dominates the south-southeastern sky before dawn).

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Watching the full moon rise over the east-northeast horizon on Friday evening, you will probably notice a rather bright yellowish-white “star” shining sedately just above and to the moon’s right. That object is not a star, however, but the planet Saturn.
Currently, Saturn is at its best for 2007. It can be found to the west (right) of the famous “Sickle” of Leo — a backward question mark-shaped star pattern, which contains Leo’s brightest star, Regulus, at the Sickle’s base.

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Feb ?? - New Horizons, Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM)      
Feb ?? - NROL-25 Delta 4M Launch      
Feb ?? - Bluesat Dnepr 1 Launch      
Feb ?? - Beidou 2A CZ-3A Launch      
Feb ?? - Anusat PSLV Launch      
Feb ?? - Cosmos 2424 (Parus N97)/ Zenit 3SL Launch Cosmos 3M Launch      
Feb ?? - Cosmos-Oko N88 Molniya M Launch      
Feb ?? - Demosat (DARPA/Air Force) Falcon 1 Launch      
Feb 01 - Beta Centaurids meteorite shower      
Feb 01 - Deadline to Submit Names to Phoenix Mission      
Feb 01 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Manoeuvre #92 (OTM-92)      
Feb 01 - Comet C/2005 W2 (Christensen) Closest Approach To Earth (3.273 AU)      
Feb 01 - Asteorid 243 Ida Occults TYC 1394-00924-1 (11.0 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 01 - Asteroid 2006 AM4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)      
Feb 01 - Asteroid 243 Ida Closest Approach To Earth (1.805 AU)      
Feb 01 - Asteroid 11911 Angel Closest Approach To Earth (2.388 AU)      
Feb 02 - Full Moon, 5:45.3 UT     
Feb 02 - Asteroid 20635 (1999 TV96) Occults HIP 39863 (4.4 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 02 - Asteroid 5102 Benfranklin Closest Approach To Earth (2.074 AU)      
Feb 02 - Asteroid 9950 ESA Closest Approach To Earth (2.232 AU)      Feb 02 - 30th Anniverary (1977), Burnup of the Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)      
Feb 03 - Asteroid 2362 Mark Twain Closest Approach To Earth (1.488 AU)      
Feb 04 - Asteroid 3804 Drunina Occults HIP 76106 (5.5 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 04 - Asteroid 2004 RN251 Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)      
Feb 04 - Asteroid 2041 Lancelot Closest Approach To Earth (2.046 AU)      
Feb 05 - Asteroid 327 Columbia Closest Approach To Earth (1.967 AU)      
Feb 05-07 - 1st Workshop on Titan - Observations, and Modelling, Honolulu, Hawaii      
Feb 05-08 - 1st GLAST Symposium, Stanford, California      
Feb 06 - Comet 182P/LONEOS Perihelion (0.980 AU)      
Feb 06 - Comet Wiseman-Skiff Closest Approach To Earth (1.294 AU)      
Feb 06 - Asteroid 665 Sabine Occults HIP 45111 (7.1 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 06 - Asteroid 9349 Lucas Closest Approach To Earth (1.731 AU)      
Feb 06 - Asteroid 19148 Alaska Closest Approach To Earth (1.799 AU)      
Feb 06-08 - 6th KEK Topical Conference: (KEKTC6), Tsukuba, Japan      
Feb 07 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Manoeuvre #93 (OTM-93)      
Feb 07 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation      
Feb 07 - Asteroid 433 Eros Occults TYC 7363-01010-1 (7.5 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 07 - Asteroid 2007 BZ48 Near-Earth Flyby (0.011 AU)      
Feb 07 - Asteroid 2003 YX1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.040 AU)      
Feb 07-09 - 3rd International Workshop on Vegetation Fluorescence, Florence, Italy      
Feb 08 - Asteroid 2007 BD7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)      
Feb 08 - Asteroid 2007 BC8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)      
Feb 08 - Asteroid 67 Asia Closest Approach To Earth (1.882 AU)      
Feb 08 - Astroparticle Physics Symposium, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands      
Feb 08 - 15th Anniversary (1992), Ulysses, Jupiter Flyby      
Feb 09 - Asteroid 243 Ida Occults 2UCAC 38071956 (10.8 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 09 - Asteroid 2200 Pasadena Closest Approach To Earth (1.209 AU)      
Feb 09 - Asteroid 2266 Tchaikovsky Closest Approach To Earth (2.115 AU)      
Feb 09 - Kuiper Belt Object 55565 (2002 AW197) Closest Approach To Earth (45.817 AU)     
Feb 10 -  Moon Last Quarter 9:51.1 UT      
Feb 10 - Saturn At Opposition      
Feb 10 - Asteroid 33876 (2000 JJ57) Occults HIP 10324 (4.4 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 11 - Comet 182P/LONEOS Closest Approach To Earth (0.297 AU)      
Feb 11-17 - Cedar Key Star Party 2007, Cedar Key, Florida      
Feb 12 - Pi Virginids meteor shower      Feb 12 - Asteroid 7887 Bratfest Occults HIP 28742 (7.0 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 12 - 60th Anniversary (1947), Sikhote Alin Meteorite Fall in Russia      
Feb 12-18 - 23rd Annual Winter Star Party, West Summerland Key, Florida      
Feb 13 - Comet C/2006 M1 (LINEAR) Perihelion (3.556 AU)      
Feb 13 - Asteroid 945 Barcelona Occults HIP 56762 (7.6 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 13 - Asteroid 2006 XB Near-Earth Flyby (0.100 AU)      
Feb 14 - Cosmos 2427 (Tselina-2 N23) Zenit 2 Launch      
Feb 14 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults UCAC2 26907353 (12.0 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 14 - 35th Anniversary (1972), Luna 20 Launch (Soviet Moon Sample Return)     
 Feb 15 - THEMIS Delta 2 Launch      
Feb 15 - IGS-3B H-2A Launch (Japan)      
Feb 15 - Asteroid 489 Comacina Occults HIP 76603 (6.5 Magnitude Star)     
 Feb 15 - Asteroid 32096 Puckett Closest Approach To Earth (1.943 AU)     
 Feb 16 - Asteroid 3325 TARDIS Occults HIP 80473 (4.6 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 16 - Asteroid 1451 Grano Occults HIP 75118 (6.1 Magnitude Star)     
 Feb 17 -   New Moon, 16:14.3 UT     
Feb 17 - Comet C/2006 YC (Catalina-Christensen) Closest Approach To Earth (4.116 AU)      
Feb 17 - Kuiper Belt Object 90482 Orcus Closest Approach To Earth (46.825 AU)      
Feb 18 - Chinese New Year      
Feb 18 - Asteroid 9000 Hal Closest Approach To Earth (1.674 AU)      
Feb 19 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Manoeuvre #94 (OTM-94)      
Feb 19 - Asteroid 5129 Groom Occults HIP 48918 (7.3 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 19 - Asteroid 18958 (2000 QL128) Occults HIP 9295 (6.1 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 19-24 - 11th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, Vienna, Austria      
Feb 20 - Asteroid 9951 Tyrannosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.644 AU)      
Feb 20 - 10th Anniverary (1997), Galileo, Europa 6 Flyby      
Feb 20 - 45th Anniversary (1962), Friendship 7 Launch (John Glenn)      
Feb 20-21 - Herschel Open Time Key Program Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands      
Feb 21 - Asteroid 7612 (1996 CN2) Occults HIP 39999 (7.6 Magnitude Star)      
Feb 21 - Asteroid 1677 Tycho Brahe Closest Approach To Earth (1.766 AU)      
Feb 21-23 - 11th Annual ISU Symposium: Why The Moon?, Strasbourg, France      
Feb 22 - Cassini, Titan Flyby      
Feb 22 - Astro/NextSat-CSC/STS-Sat 1/NP-Sat 1/ CFE-Sat/Midsar1/ Falconsat 3/ MEPSI 4A & 4B Atlas 5 Launch      
Feb 23 - Asteroid 1000 Piazzia Closest Approach To Earth (2.095 AU)      
Feb 23 - 20th Anniversary (1987), Supernova 1987A Explosion      
Feb 23-25 - Conference: Twenty Years After SN1987A, Waikoloa, Hawaii      
Feb 24 -   First Quarter Moon,7:55.8 UT     
Feb 24 - Comet P/2007 A3 (Petriew) Perihelion (0.938 AU)      
Feb 24 - Asteroid 4055 Magellan Closest Approach To Earth (1.413 AU)      
Feb 25 - Rosetta, Mars Flyby      
Feb 25 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #95 (OTM-95)      
Feb 25-Mar 01 - Conference: Colliders to Cosmic Rays 2007, Tahoe, California      
Feb 26 - Asteroid 16761 Hertz Closest Approach To Earth (2.089 AU)      
Feb 27 - TerraSAR-X Dnepr 1 Launch      
Feb 27 - Asteroid 9342 Carygrant Closest Approach To Earth (1.651 AU)      
Feb 27-Mar 01 - 2nd Space and Society Conference, Noordwijk, The Netherlands      
Feb 28 - New Horizons, Jupiter Flyby      
Feb 28 - Asteroid 9963 Sandage Closest Approach To Earth (2.037 AU)  


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