Local Sky Events
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- Quadrantid Meteor Shower peaks on the night of Jan 3-4. The radiant is between Bootes and Draco.
- Jupiter dominates the southern sky in Aries reaching a magnitude -2.5.
- Brilliant Venus shines at magnitude -4.0 in the southwestern twilight. It will climb about 10 degrees higher by the end of January.
- Mars climbs above the eastern horizon by 10 pm and earlier during the month. Mars gently moves from eastern Leo into Virgo and begins to retrograde back into Leo by month's end.
- MOON: First Quarter on Jan 2; full on Jan 9; third-quarter on Jan 16; new on Jan 23 and first-quarter on Jan 30
- See our Links page - Sky Watching - for other events.
- See Sky and Telescope Magazine (This Week's Sky at a Glance) from our Links page for more events.
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