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Turn on your camcorder, go outside, and become an astronomer. How? [ http://www.sky.net/~robinson/0729prls.htm ]. Tomorrow morning, our Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970728.html ap960730.html ] will pass directly in front of Aldebaran [ http://www.bo.astro.it/copernic/alde-eng.html ], the brightest star in this picture and in entire constellation of Taurus [ http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations/Taurus.html ]. Aldebaran [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970728.html http://www.adler.uchicago.edu/ISE/TAURUS4.HTM ] is visible to the left and below Comet Hale-Bopp in the above photograph [ http://galileo.ivv.nasa.gov/comet/cat1.html ], which was taken on April 30th in Tenerife [ http://www.cistia.es/cabildotf/ ], Spain. This occultation is valuable because disappearance times from different locations can be used to map the height of the lunar terrain [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960420.html ] at the occultation points. You can help by clicking here [ http://www.sky.net/~robinson/iotandx.htm ], where a site will detail how to tape a familiar cable channel and then take your still-running camcorder [ http://www.sky.net/~robinson/0729camc.htm ] outside to tape the occultation of Aldebaran [ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1983ApJ%2E%2E%2E265%2E%2E325S&db_key=AST&nosetcookie=1 ] by the Moon. You can then donate your VCR tape to science by mailing it to this address [ http://www.sky.net/~robinson/0729prls.htm ]. Leave yourself plenty of time [ http://www.sky.net/~robinson/0729tysd.htm ] for a practice run and be sure to check the weather before going to a lot of trouble!
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