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Three planets move to the morning

It’s another calendar year, and another 365.2425 days of planetary observing to look forward to. You can turn to pages 16–19 for a complete rundown of the whole 12 months ahead, but for now let’s look in detail at January and February.

(mag. –0.9, dia. 5.7”, Jan. 15) begins January in the western evening twilight, climbing to a maximum eastern elongation (ie. angular distance

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