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    What can you expect to see at the Community Observatory this weekend? The days are getting longer by about 2 minutes each day.   The Sunset is after 6 PM now and good seeing won’t be until after 7 PM. With next week’s change to Daylight Savings Time, a 7:30 start time would mean that we would be starting while it is still quite light. So, this is our last week to be meeting from 7:30-9:30 PM. We will be switching to our Summer Hours of 9 until 11 PM next weekend. The Moon was full on Tuesday morning and has been rising around 50 minutes later each day. It won’t rise until after we close on Friday and Saturday. Given that and a prediction of clear skies, it could be a great weekend to visit the observatory. Last week’s “Planetary Alignment” did not nearly live up to social media hype. We had a weather closure on Saturday but several of us still showed up because we knew people would still show up. About twenty people did show up and we were able to show Jupiter...