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Outside magazine, November 1995


Stargazing
By David N. Schramm

Keep an eye out this month for an exceptional interplanetary treat: Venus, Mars, and Jupiter will appear very close together from the 13th to the 24th and will be easy to spot with wide-angle binoculars. The 13th will also be the peak of the Taurid meteor shower, with a rate of 15 per hour. On the 19th, Saturn's rings will become visible with a small telescope (for several months they've been almost edge-on from Earth's vantage point and therefore difficult to see). The 20th is the birthday of Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer in whose honor the notorious space telescope was named. The full Moon will occur on the seventh, the new Moon on the 22d.