... Hazy skies usually mean steady skies, and steady air is just what the doctor ordered for observing planets and double stars. Mars is well past opposition and becoming less an item of interest as it shrinks in size, but Jupiter and Saturn are well placed in the early morning August sky. ... Their magnitudes are 4.2 and 6.0. ... It has an easily observed 10.6 magnitude central star. ... Cygnus is also host to a lot of small open star clusters that stand up to inspection under hazy skies. ...

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• By Mike Allen...

EYEPIECE Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York February 2009 Volume 57, Number 2, ISSN 0146-7662 `100 Hours of Astronomy' Effort Is Ready to Roll By Jason Kendall On January 6 in Long Beach, Calif., the American Astronomical Society kicked off the beginning of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 with a big celebration attended by hundreds of professional and amateur astronomers. ... On April 2-5 there is a global star party. ... February 22 Moon lies near Mercury and Jupiter. ...