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great stuff!!
Here is the new Sky map for May 2009
http://www.skymaps.com/downloads.html
scroll down and choose your hemisphere and the PDF will open for you...
Each month the new one can be found there...
i have located many galaxies and messier objects using these maps, that i wouldnt have been able to find otherwise..
(until i learn its whole computer thing, then i can just tell it where to look) lol
and from sky and telescope...
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Friday, May 1
# First-quarter Moon (exact at 4:44 p.m. EDT).
# Mayday is also known as Beltane, for the ancient Gaelic festival that gave rise to some of our May Day traditions. Beltane is one of the four cross-quarter days about midway between the equinoxes and solstices. In other words, this is the midpoint of spring (Northern Hemisphere spring).
More or less. The actual midpoint between this year's March equinox and June solstice comes on May 5th, at 4:45 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
# Saturday, May 2
# The Moon shines about 3° below Regulus during evening for North America, as shown at right.
# Venus in the morning sky is at its greatest illuminated extent: when its sunlit area appears to be largest as seen in a telescope (when it shows the most illuminated square arcseconds). This is about when Venus is at its greatest brilliancy.
dang.. i just lost a bunch of stuff in this post... grrrr.... lol