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Just peeking at the star chart over lunch via and seeing that at this moment Venus is occulting Jupiter.

Of course we can't see it 'cuz that pesky sun is blasting us. That thing, always in the way.

Quite a little cluster there.

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Cosmography archives

1998 - A map of interstellar molecular clouds and diffuse gas within 500 pc of the Sun

by Priscilla Frisch

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998SSRv...86..107F/abstract

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Cosmography archives - 1948

The Skalnaté Pleso Atlas of the Heavens, by Antonín Bečvář

A set of sixteen beautiful, colorful, exquisitely precise celestial charts covering the entire sky.

📷 chart II, centered on the Perseus constellation

❓ can you spot the Andromeda Galaxy

More infos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skalnate_Pleso_Atlas_of_the_Heavens
https://sandandstars.co.za/an-observing-table-full-of-treasures
http://www.astrosurf.com/rondi/theo/atlas_coeli

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