Monthly Night Sky information provided by Chris Vaughan (@Astrogeoguy) at Starry Night Education (@StarryNightEdu).

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The Goat Star and Her Kids (all night)

January 7 @ 8:00 pm - January 8 @ 5:00 am

On early-January evenings, the constellation of Auriga, the Charioteer is positioned high in the eastern sky. The constellation is dominated by the very bright (magnitude 0.05), yellow, sun-like star Capella, nick-named the Goat Star. Look several finger widths to the right (or 4 degrees to the celestial south) of Capella for a narrow, sideways triangle of three fainter stars known as the Kids –Almaaz, and Hoedus I, and Hoedus II (or Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta Aurigae). The main stars of Auriga form an ellipse, although the medium-bright star Elnath at its right-hand (or southern) end is actually the northern horn-tip star of Taurus, the Bull.

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January 7 @ 8:00 pm
End:
January 8 @ 5:00 am
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