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Re: Could I have seen Zubenelgenubi in morning twilight with x10 binoculars?
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2017 Dec 16, 12:52 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2017 Dec 16, 12:52 -0800
Very likely! You probably saw Zubenelgenubi. :) It's not that unusual from where I live, though of course at your latitude it doesn't get very high. With fainter stars in twilight, it's always a great convenience when a bright object is close by like this.
It's too much fun to say, isn't it? I first learned the name Zubenelgenubi while watching a really bad episode a chidren's science fiction show called Lost in Space when I was perhaps seven years old. It was probably the very first navigational star name I ever learned, and pronounced with a corny English accent.
Frank Reed
