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Regulus 2026 January

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In this issue:
President’s Report     p. 2
The Editors Keyboard     p. 3
Balancing a mount     p. 4
Skyward         p. 5
The Sky This Month     p. 6
Target for Tonight     p. 6
Stuff from Kevin     p. 7
Obituary         p. 7
Frontenac News         p. 8
A New Space Observatory    p. 9
About Us         p. 10

Editor: Roger Hill

KC Gallery 2025

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Member-submitted best imagery of the year:

Saturn - Mark Kaye

VLA Comet Lemmon - Malcolm Park

Lobster Claw (SH2-157) and Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635)- Stefan Jackson

Dark Shark Nebula- Bruce Murray

Eastern Veil Nebula - Mark Deslauriers

November Meteor- Rose-Marie Burke

C/2025 R2 (Swan) - Kevin Wood

Jupiter-Venus Conjunction- Bruce Elliott

Sunspots - Rick Wagner

M27 the Dumbbell Nebula- Steve Craig

Methane Jupiter- Kevin Kell

Galaxies - Mike Hanes

Aurora- Peggy Hurley

Sky This Month

Astronomy This Month – January 2026
01 Jan - (667) Denise (mag 15.6) occults J144135.51+024414.1 (mag 10.5) for everybody; 05:52EST
02 Jan – 40 Harmonia (mag 9.5) at opposition
03 Jan – Full Moon (05:03EST)
03 Jan – Earth at perihelion (147,099,894km, 12:16EST)
03 Jan – Quadrantid meteor shower peaks (17:00EST)
03 Jan – Jupiter, Full Moon, Castor and Pollux rise together in the NE during evening twilight
06 Jan – Venus in superior conjunction with Sun
06 Jan – (5304) Bazhenov (mag 16.5) occults TYC 1338-00545-1 (mag 10.3) for Sharbot Lake, Elgin, Athens; 22:07EST
09 Jan – Mars in conjunction with Sun
10 Jan – Jupiter at opposition
10 Jan – Last Quarter Moon
14 Jan – (4332) Milton (mag 16.5) occults UCAC4 431-020402 (mag11.0) for eastern Prince Edward County, 00:22EST
18 Jan – New Moon (14:52EST)
23 Jan – 44 Nysa (mag 8.8) at opposition
25 Jan – First Quarter Moon
27 Jan – (1969) Alain (mag 18.3) occults HIP8416 (mag 8.5) for Yarker, Sydenham, Kingston, Battersea;19:28EST

Astronomy This Month – February 2026
01 Feb – Full Moon (17:09EST)
02 Feb – !! Full Moon occults Regulus (20:50EST) !!
06 Feb – Artemis II launch?
09 Feb – Last Quarter Moon
10 Feb – zodiacal light visible low in W late in evening twilight
11 Feb – (441) Bathilde (mag 13.3) occults TYC 1275-01275-1 (mag 9.1) for Morrisburg and Cardinal (23:57EST)
12 Feb – gegenschein visible high in the S at midnight from very dark skies
17 Feb – New Moon (07:01EST)
17 Feb – Pancake Tuesday
17 Feb – comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) (mag 7?) visible for the next few days low in SW starting about an hour after sunset
18 Feb – very thin 36hr old crescent Moon 1º below Mercury (mag -0.5) very low in WSW during evening twilight, Venus (mag -3.9) 7º below
19 Feb – Mercury (mag -0.4) at greatest elongation east low in W during evening twilight, Venus (mag -3.9) 8º below
20 Feb – Neptune (mag 7.8) 0.8º right of Saturn (mag 1.0) low in W at end of evening twilight (<1º from 13-26 Feb)
20 Feb – asteroid (15878) 1996 XC3 occults UCAC4 571-046413 (mag 10.8) (03:30EST)
23 Feb – asteroid (8) Flora occults UCAC4 350-128765 (mag 9.0) during morning twilight (06:17EST)
23 Feb – Moon transits the northern edge of Pleiades, occultations of several bright stars on dark limb (22:15EST)
24 Feb – First Quarter Moon
27 Feb - (7) Iris (mag 8.7) at opposition

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