* Astronomy

The moon is near to the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters (Messier object 45)

See the live webcast "When the Moon meets the Seven Sisters"
21 Feb. 2010, 18:30 UT

We are all familiar with the summer portion of the Milky Way, that grand, glowing, expanse of stars that seems to mark a path across the sky from north to south.
The winter portion also travels roughly from north to south starting in the area of Cassiopeia and Cepheus in the northwest, up past Perseus, through Auriga high overhead. Continuing down toward the southeast between Gemini and Orion, past Canis Major and to the southern horizon.
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Venus  in conjunction in Right Ascension with Jupiter: only 34.6' separated, 21:09 UT, 16th February, 2010.

Venus close to Jupiter, 17:22 GMT


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Losar is the Tibetan and Nepalese New Year festival (Lo, 'year', Sar, 'new').