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-====== Sky Highlights and NEKAAL Events for JULY 2016 ====== 
-  * July 4   ​-- ​ __**New Moon**__\\ 
-  * July 9   ​-- ​ **Open House** at Farpoint Observatory,​ 9 pm to ? --> Join us! 
-  * July 11  --  First Quarter\\ 
-  * July 19  --  Full Moon 
-  * July 26  --  Last Quarter 
-  * July 28  --  General Meeting, Topeka Library, 7 pm. Join us! 
  
-===== PLANETS in July 2016 ===== 
-Evening Sky: 
-  * **Mercury** -- in west (twilight) 
-  * **Venus** ​  -- in west (twilight) 
-  * **Mars** ​   -- in south 
-  * **Jupiter** -- in west 
-  * **Saturn** ​ -- in south 
  
-Midnight: +For sky highlights see:
-  * **Mars** ​   -- in southwest +
-  * **Saturn** ​ -- in southwest +
-  * **Neptune** -- in southeast +
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-Morning Sky: +
-  * **Uranus** ​ -- in southeast +
-  * **Neptune** -- in south+
  
-===== CONSTELLATIONS well placed in evening during July 2016 ===== +[[http://​www.skyandtelescope.com/​observing/​sky-at-a-glance/​|Sky and Telescope'​s Sky at a glance]] \\ 
-North to South, ​at 9-11 pm: +OR \\ 
-  * **Ursa Minor**, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper +[[http://​www.astronomy.com/​observing/​sky-this-week|Astronomy Magazine'​s Sky This Week]] ​
-  * **Draco**, the Dragon +
-  * **Ursa Major**, the Big Bear, also the Big Dipper +
-  * **Hercules**,​ the Strong Man +
-  * **Corona Borealis**, the northern crown, Crown of Ariadne +
-  * **Ophiuchus**,​ the Serpent Bearer +
-  * **Boötes**,​ the Hunter +
-  * **Libra**, the Scales +
-  * **Scorpio**,​ the Scorpion (see Mars and Saturn there) +
-  * **Lepus**, the Hare+
  
-===== SKY EXTRAS in July 2016 ===== 
-  * **Mercury** is now back in the evening sky, low in the west, best late in the month of July, between low Venus and higher Jupiter 
-  * No, unfortunately Kansas will not quite be able to see the New Moon occult bright star Aldebaran--we'​re just a few hundred miles too far north. Still, it should be an interesting apparent conjunction ~ 5 am Friday July 29. 
-  * **Challenge object** of the month: ex-planet Pluto is at its best in July. At magnitude ~ 14 you're going to need at least an 8" scope, a good eyepiece, and a bit of patience. At least it's warm, so try it now--100 years from now you'll be stuck with finding it in winter. 
-  * Best **comet** of the month: still PANSTARRS C/2013 X1, should be easily visible in binoculars, very low in the southern sky during evening twilight, all month long. 
-  * No great meteor showers this month, but there are the delta Aquariids starting July 12-August 23 (New Moon August 2), low in the south. And get ready for the impressive Perseids peaking the night of August 11-12. 
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