Date: 17 Oct 2006 00:04:28
From: Alan French
Subject: Algol at Minimum at 9:36 EDT Tonight
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Algol (Beta Persei), the "Demon Star," will be at minimum at 9:36 PM tonight
(magnitude 3.4) and will take about five hours to return to its normal
brightness (magnitude 2.1). Or you can just look again tomorrow night to
see it at maximum.
For more information, see
http://skytonight.com/observing/objects/variablestars/3304096.html
or
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/algol.html
Clear skies, Alan
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