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- Planetary Skylights: Venus, Mercury, Uranus, Mars and Jupiter
- Meteors: Quadrantids
- Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
- Earth reaches Perihelion
- January 2020 Sky Charts
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Chief star in Hydra - the traditional name Alphard is from the Arabic (al-fard), "The Solitary One", no doubt because there are no other bright stars in Alphard’s immediate vicinity. The European astronomer Tycho Brahe dubbed it Cor Hydrae, Latin for 'the heart of Hydra'. At magnitude +1.8 Alphard is a ‘bright’ second magnitude star and lies approximately 177 light years away. [Read more about Crossing the Line: objects of the month]
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