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            <title><![CDATA[Venus at Peak Brightness on the 23rd: Why a Crescent Outshines a Full Disc]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On 23 September Venus reaches magnitude -4.78, its brightest of the year, while only 22 % of it is lit. The paradox resolves into a multiplication: the crescent thins, but the disc grows faster, 42 arcseconds across at 59 million kilometres. The calculation, the observing window that is melting away, and what binoculars make of the crescent.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The September Sky: Venus Blazing, a Daytime Occultation and the Harvest Moon]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Venus peaks at magnitude -4.8, yet its lead over the Sun melts from 61 minutes to 15 in a single month. In between, the Moon will hide it in broad daylight on the 14th, the equinox falls on the 23rd, and the full Moon of the 26th will rise barely later each evening. The month's programme, computed for Western Europe.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saturn Returns to the Evening Sky, Its Rings Reopened to 8.9 Degrees]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tonight it rises at 22:44, and it will gain twenty minutes every week. More to the point, its rings are open again: edge-on and all but gone in March 2025, they now stand at 8.9 degrees. Here is the season's timetable up to the 4 October opposition, and what instrument it takes.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tonight a Crescent Moon Slips Below Venus, With Earthshine at Its Best]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Between 21:10 and 21:55, low in the west-south-west, a crescent lit to 11.9 % passes within seven degrees of Venus. It is also the best evening this month to see the dark limb of the Moon lit by the Earth. Here are the two quarter-hours that matter, and the arithmetic of what is doing the lighting.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mercury and Jupiter Meet on 15 August: the Tightest Conjunction of the Half-Year]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tomorrow morning the two planets will fit inside a circle one and a half times the width of the full Moon. They will also be four degrees above the horizon in an already brightening dawn. Here is the honest arithmetic: the hour, the altitude, the azimuth, and why half of you will see nothing.]]></description>
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