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Shortly after sunset in june...Saturn, Mars, M44...

It appears that during mid-june, Saturn, Mars and the Beehive (M44) will be very close to each other!!
This is a starry night simulation on june 11th at 23:35 CET:

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/7887/1123255bz.jpg


But on june 15-16, Mars will be inside the Beehive and crossing it very rapidly!!
The arrow only points to one of the stars, but M44 is the entire cluster.
This is at 23:25

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/9197/mm4411523250tm.jpg


This is at 04:25 AM on the 16th but invisible in Europe..

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/3462/mm4421604250db.jpg


M44 is 577 light-years away!!
The problem is these events will be very low above the horizon at sunset...over here.

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