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April 03, 2008, at 12:11 PM EST by Rathnasree -
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Just above the point marked South and a little to the right, is bright Saturn. This will be the brightest object, about overhead, at the times mentioned. Locate the stars of Leo and ignore Saturn, in the star count!

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Just above the point marked South and a little to the right, is bright Saturn. This is its position in April 2008. This will be the brightest object, about overhead, at the times mentioned. Locate the stars of Leo, and ignore Saturn, in the star count!

April 03, 2008, at 12:10 PM EST by Rathnasree -
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and this

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Just above the point marked South and a little to the right, is bright Saturn. This will be the brightest object, about overhead, at the times mentioned. Locate the stars of Leo and ignore Saturn, in the star count!

The overhead regions might look like this

April 03, 2008, at 02:40 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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Paraphrasing a Mohammad Rafi song

"Tum taare gino, aur neend udhe, yeh baat to bohut khushi ki hi hai" :-)

(You can download the song from here)

http://music.cooltoad.com/music/song.php?id=273410

April 02, 2008, at 11:23 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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We follow a star counting method suggested by the International Meteor Organisation, for determining the Magnitude of the faintest visible star - or the Limiting Magnitude at

http://www.imo.net/visual/major/observation/lm

Arvind Paranjpye of IUCAA suggested that we use the method outlined in the above link.

The following is a simplified version of using one particular region of the sky discussed in this link.

April 02, 2008, at 11:12 AM EST by 59.180.21.128 - Rathnasree
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Our ancients imagined the figure of a majestic Lion outlined by the stars of this constellation, perhaps as in thif figure from weasnor.com

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Our ancients imagined the figure of a majestic Lion outlined by the stars of this constellation, perhaps as in this figure from weasnor.com

April 02, 2008, at 11:12 AM EST by 59.180.21.128 -
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Our ancients imagined the figure of a majestic Lion outlined by the stars of this constellation, perhaps as in thif figure from weasnor.com

http://www.weasner.com/etx/ref_guides/images/sherrod-leo1.jpg

April 02, 2008, at 07:06 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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(You can download the song from here)

http://music.cooltoad.com/music/song.php?id=273410

April 02, 2008, at 06:53 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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And then go ahead, paraphrasing a Mohammad Rafi song

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And then go ahead, count the stars and report in the yahoogroup

http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/Astronomy_Activities_2009/

Where there are ongoing discussions for participating in this project.

Paraphrasing a Mohammad Rafi song

April 02, 2008, at 06:52 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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We need to identify the stars Regulus, Algeiba, Zosma and Denebola of Leo, using this image, perhaps, or using planetarium software that is accessible.

http://nehruplanetarium.org/IYA2009/taare/April_mag3.5_labeled.JPG

And then go ahead, paraphrasing a Mohammad Rafi song

"Tum taare gino, aur neend udhe, yeh baat to bohut khushi ki hi hai" :-)

April 02, 2008, at 06:11 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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First, we can familiarise ourselves with the stars in the Leo region. Looking overhead at the times mentioned, this is what we might be seeing, from cities.

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First, we can familiarise ourselves with the stars in the Leo region. Looking roughly overhead at the times mentioned, this is what we might be seeing, from cities.

April 02, 2008, at 06:08 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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Let us begin with contributing observations from just one region of the sky - Leo. This is one region that would move roughly overhead (as seen from most parts of India), at a convenient time, for April evenings. Early in april, Leo would move over head around 10 PM, mid april around 9:00 PM and late April, around 8:00 PM, all reasonably convenient timings.

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Let us begin with contributing observations from just one region of the sky - Leo. This is one region that would move roughly overhead (as seen from most parts of India), at a convenient time, for April evenings. Early in april, Leo would move roughly over head around 10 PM, mid April around 9:00 PM and late April, around 8:00 PM, all reasonably convenient timings.

April 02, 2008, at 06:03 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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Let us begin with contributing observations from just one region of the sky - Leo. This is one region that would move roughly overhead, at a convenient time, for April evenings. Early in april, Leo would move over head around 10 PM, mid april around 9:00 PM and late April, around 8:00 PM, all reasonably convenient timings.

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Let us begin with contributing observations from just one region of the sky - Leo. This is one region that would move roughly overhead (as seen from most parts of India), at a convenient time, for April evenings. Early in april, Leo would move over head around 10 PM, mid april around 9:00 PM and late April, around 8:00 PM, all reasonably convenient timings.

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First, we can familiarise ourselves with the stars in the Leo region. Looking overhead at the times mentioned, this is what we might be seeing.

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First, we can familiarise ourselves with the stars in the Leo region. Looking overhead at the times mentioned, this is what we might be seeing, from cities.

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and this

http://nehruplanetarium.org/IYA2009/taare/April_mag6.2.JPG

If we are living in more fortunate regions of the country.

April 02, 2008, at 05:48 AM EST by Rathnasree -
Changed lines 11-12 from:

http://nehruplanetarium.org/IYA2009/taare/April_mag3.5.htm

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http://nehruplanetarium.org/IYA2009/taare/April_mag3.5.JPG

April 02, 2008, at 05:48 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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http://nehruplanetarium.org/IYA2009/taare/April_mag3.5.htm

April 02, 2008, at 05:44 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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April 02, 2008, at 05:11 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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Let us begin with contributing observations from just one region of the sky - Leo. This is one region that would move overhead at a convenient time, for April evenings. Early in april, Leo would move over head (transit the Meridian) around 10 PM, mid april around 9:00 PM and late April, around 8:00 PM, all reasonably convinient timings.

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Let us begin with contributing observations from just one region of the sky - Leo. This is one region that would move roughly overhead, at a convenient time, for April evenings. Early in april, Leo would move over head around 10 PM, mid april around 9:00 PM and late April, around 8:00 PM, all reasonably convenient timings.

April 02, 2008, at 05:00 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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We want to contribute with observations from overhead regions as they will be the least marked by local contributions to light pollution (unless we are sitting directly under a street light and then set out to observe :-)

So, what beginner observations do we contribute with, in April.

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We want to contribute with observations from overhead regions as they will be the least marked by local contributions to light pollution (unless we are sitting directly under a street light and then look up to observe :-)

So, what beginner observations do we contribute with, in April?

First, we can familiarise ourselves with the stars in the Leo region. Looking overhead at the times mentioned, this is what we might be seeing.

April 02, 2008, at 04:54 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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We want to contribute with observations from overhead regions as they will be the least marked by local contributions to light pollution (unless we are sitting directly under a street light and then set out to observe :-)

So, what beginner observations do we contribute with, in April.

April 02, 2008, at 04:52 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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Here is something that might be useful for the very beginners to get started on contributing with observations for the Taarewiki?

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Here is something that might be useful for the very beginners to get started on contributing with observations for the Taarewiki.

Let us begin with contributing observations from just one region of the sky - Leo. This is one region that would move overhead at a convenient time, for April evenings. Early in april, Leo would move over head (transit the Meridian) around 10 PM, mid april around 9:00 PM and late April, around 8:00 PM, all reasonably convinient timings.

April 02, 2008, at 03:40 AM EST by Rathnasree -
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Here is something that might be useful for the very beginners to get started on contributing with observations for the Taarewiki?

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