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VENUS, which has been a brilliant object in the sky during the last months of 1933, is now passing towards inferior conjunction, which is reached on February 5. The casual observer will see little of the planet until its next eastern elongation, but it will be a brilliant object in the early morning sky later in the year. By the middle of January, Mars will set about two hours after the sun; Jupiter will be an early morning object, rising six hours before the sun, and Saturn will be close to Mars in the evening sky. There will be a partial eclipse of the moon, partly visible at Greenwich, on January 30. The circumstances of this eclipse are as follows: Moon enters penumbra, 14h. 07m., leaves, 19h. 17m.; enters umbra, 16h. Olm., leaves, 17h. 20m. Middle of eclipse, 16h. 43m., magnitude, 0-12 (moon's diameter = 1).
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The Sky in January. Nature 132, 1000 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/1321000f0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1321000f0