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muriel_volestrangler

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19. If there's about 3 hours between the first and last rising, that's about an eighth of a day

Reply to Orsino (Reply #13)

Tue Mar 6, 2018, 05:40 PM

Mar 2018

so it ought to be about an eighth of a complete circle between them - or a quarter of the observable sky (maybe the diagram is roughly from east to south). I suppose that's closer than average, but not that notable, I'd think - more just a title for a general "what you can see in the sky at the moment" article.

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