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Old 08-04-2013, 10:55 PM
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batema (Mark)
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No moon but i think Saturn may be up but possibly a little late. I am a school teacher and when we run nights i also talk about looking back in time and usually use alpha centauri being 4.3 ly away so when you are looking it is the past. I also tell them that it is the closest star to our sun but if we travelled at 50 000 km/h to get there it would take nearly 100 000 yrs. Sort of puts into perspective the size of things. If young kids are coming maybe a pirate patch from the chemist to help them with the one eye closed thing. Have fun. i wish i could come along.
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