what constellations are visible on feb 1 8:00 p.m. mountain standard time?
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The constellations would be the same regardless of time zone.  Orion is like directly overhead and slightly to the south along with Taurua and Auriga just to the west and north of Orion.  Gemini and Canis Major is East of Orion.  Pegasus is far to the West while Leo is rising in the east.  \n\nTo get a star chart of any night go to\n\nhttp://skyandtelescope.com/observing/skychart/article_1220_1.asp#
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Rotation period 1.025 957 d
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Astronomy is................ looking up !
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Download and run the program Stellarium from sourceforge.\n\nIts open source, and if you give it your location and the date/time it will show you the night sky for you locally and identify all of the constellations.
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Monoceros\n\nHere's a link for you to check the answer,\nhttp://www.astrofilitrentini.it/mat/costell/mon_e.html
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Try this website:\n\nhttp://www.starshine.com/frankn/astronomy/constellations.asp
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It varies place to place and even month to month.\n\nWhat one needs to consider are three things: which are the brightest stars in the sky (as these are going to be the first to be seen as the sky darkens), what times of year are these stars visible RIGHT AT DUSK, and from which parts of the globe are they visible?\n\nThe brightest star in the night sky is Sirius.  Siruis is located in the southern sky, but is visible from the vast majority of the Northern hemisphere because it isn't too far south.  If you're in a part of the world where Sirius can be seen (all but Canada, Alaska, Russia, Scandanavia, etc), and at a time of year when it is in the sky right at dusk (mid winter to early spring), then Sirius (also called the Dog Star) will be the first to be visible.\n\nOther bright stars:\n\nCanopus (visible primarily from the southern hemisphere and the tropics or subtropics)\n\nArcturus (visible throughout the Northern hemisphere, would be in evening sky probably from spring to mid summer)\n\nAlpha Centauri (the closest of all stars, visible primarily from the southern hemisphere and the tropics or subtropics)\n\nVega (the one in the movie Contact, visible throughout the northern hemisphere, in evening sky around late summer through autumn)\n\nCapella (visible throughout the Northern hemisphere, probably in evening sky around winter into early spring)
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Happy Spring! \n\n...2006...\nVERNAL EQUINOX.....(SPRING) MAR 20 2006  126 PM EST - 1826 UTC\n\nSUMMER SOLSTICE....(SUMMER) JUN 21 2006  726 AM EST - 1226 UTC\n\nAUTUMNAL EQUINOX...(FALL)   SEP 22 2006 1103 PM EST - 0403 UTC SEP 23\n\nWINTER SOLSTICE....(WINTER) DEC 21 2006  722 PM EST - 0022 UTC DEC 22
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November 18, 2007, any time it is dark, but especially around midnight, until the moon rises around 3:45am.  Cloud cover of 30-35% is predicted, so that's definitely a limiting factor.  Take advantage of any clear dark night, since the Leonids shower is spread over about 2 weeks.  It can be spectacular.\n\nLook toward the east for the constellation Leo.  Then, just watch where the action is.\n\nSee the second reference for apparently new information about this unusually high expected peak.
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" The Vernal Equinox "\n(official start of the spring season)\nMarch 20 at 1:26 pm EST\n=================\n10:26 am PST\n=================
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Well, in a very general sense, it's best to view stars and *some* planets between 10pm and midnight.  You'd have to look up the positions of each planet (or the major ones, anyway) to figure out when all of them are in sight.
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Aquarius-The water sign. Feb. 9th.
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The next shower that appears with regularity is the Lyrids during April 16-25 (peaks Apr. 22). You should be able to see anywhere from 10-15 meteors per hour. Slightly closer but much less impressive is the Corona Australids during Mar. 14-18. \n\nTo see these showers look in the direction of the constellation that they are named after. Note: you need to spend a good 30 min in order to see just a handful. If there is a full moon then you will see less than if there was no moon out.
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Shoemaker 1, tonight!\n\nVery comprehensive calender of comets below:\n\nhttp://www.aerith.net/comet/future-n.html\n\nBut for a simple answer, look at this website, it seems that today (7th June) we will see  the brilliantly named 102P/Shoemaker 1, which you can read about at the second of the two below links, and the third link is wikipedia's little info page on it (the important info is in the table at the right-hand side of the page)\n\nhttp://cometography.com/current_comets.html\nhttp://cometography.com/pcomets/102P.html\n\nSo get that telescope out! :-) Hope that helps
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this week, if you look east at about 9:30pm local time, you will see Jupiter just above the horizon.  At about 1am, it will be high in the sky to the south.  just before sunrise, it will be just about to set in the west.\n\nsubtract two hours from each of these times for these positions for every month you add to right now.\n\noh, wait.  a picture.  you don't actually want to find it in the sky.  go to http://www.nineplanets.org and click on "Jupiter".
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Unfortunately, just Saturn.  (See source.)  Venus, Mars, and Jupiter are too closely in line with the Sun this month.  \n\nHowever, Mercury should be visible in the pre-dawn, later this month.\n\nWe just missed the very rare transit of the sun by Mercury on Nov. 8th (I'm kicking myself ... I saw the Venus transit a few years ago through a telescope, and it was wonderful).\n\nAnd don't miss the Leonid meteor shower on Nov. 17.  Unfortunately for me, this year the Leonids peak in the middle of the day in the U.S., but I imagine our European friends would get a good view.
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February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. It is the shortest Gregorian month and the only month with the length of 28 or 29 days. The month has 29 days in leap years, when the year number is divisible by four (except for years that are divisible by 100 and not by 400). In other years the month has 28 days.\n\nFebruary begins, astronomically speaking, with the sun in the constellation of Capricornus and ends with the sun in the constellation of Aquarius. Astrologically speaking, February begins with the sun in the sign of Aquarius and ends in the sign of Pisces.\n\nFebruary was named for the Roman god Februus, the god of purification. January and February were the last two months to be added to the Roman calendar, since the Romans originally considered winter a monthless period. This change was made by Numa Pompilius about 700 BC in order to bring the calendar in line with a standard lunar year. Numa's Februarius contained 29 days (30 in a leap year). Augustus is alleged to have removed one day from February and added it to August, (renamed from Sextilis to honor himself), so that Julius Caesar's July would not contain more days. However there is little historical evidence to support this claim.\n\nFebruary was nominally the last month of the Roman calendar, as the year originally began in March. At certain intervals Roman priests inserted an intercalary month, Mercedonius, after February to realign the year with the seasons.\n\nHistorical names for February include the Anglo-Saxon terms Solmoneth (mud month) and Kale-monath (named for cabbage) as well as Charlemagne's designation Hornung. In old Japanese calendar, the month is called Kisaragi (如月, 絹更月 or 衣更月). It is sometimes also called Mumetsuki (梅見月) or Konometsuki (木目月). In Finnish, the month is called helmikuu, meaning "month of the pearl".\n\nFebruary is recognized as Black History Month in the United States and Canada.\n\n"February" is pronounced without the first r, as "Febuary", by many speakers. This is probably elision, or an analogical change influenced by "January".