Phoenix Sky Events

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Mercury transits the sun

(daytime): Mercury transits the sun, entire 5-hour transit visible from 12:12 pm (high in S) to 5:05 pm (low in WSW). Sunset 5:30 pm.

Monday, October 16, 2006

Saturn 2 degrees to lower right of crescent moon

(morning): Saturn 2 degrees to lower right of crescent Moon, high in E before sunrise.

Monday, October 09, 2006

Gibbous Moon occults Pleiades star cluster

(evening); Gibbous Moon occults Pleiades star cluster (M45). Rise in ENE about 8:00 pm, occultation from about 8:30 pm to 11 pm.

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The content of this blog is largely to completely copied from Joe Orman's "2006: A Year of Sky Events". That document states that it may be copied and distributed for non-commercial use, but it must be credited to Joe Orman. So credited. Entries particularly copied from Joe Orman are tagged joe.orman. While I have attempted to accurately transcibe Phoenix sky information from sources, the reader should be aware that it is entirely possible that this blog contains mistakes and innacuracies.