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• The moon sets soon thereafter, so you may want to set the alarm clock early and try to see them between 3 AM and dawn on Wednesday morning.

• There are three established and widely accepted subcategories of twilight: civil twilight (brightest), nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight (darkest).
• nautical twilight ends when navigation via the horizon at sea is no longer possible

• January’s Full Moon is popularly known as the Moon After Yule, the Old Moon, or the Wolf Moon, depending on whose mythology you prefer.
• Luna below and to the right of the Pleiades star cluster on the evening of the 4th.
• Luna’s glow will interfere to some extent with the year’s first major meteor shower, the Quadrantids, which will peak on the morning of the 4th.
• from an area of the sky near the "handle" of the Big Dipper, can produce some 40 shooting stars per hour from a dark location, with occasional bursts of over 100 per hour around the peak time.
• shower’s peak is expected at around 2:30 am EST, with moonset at 3:14 am.

  • Twi A: 6:03amTwi N: 6:32amSunrise: 7:28amSunset: 5:43pmTwi N: 6:39pmTwi A: 7:08pmMoonrise: 2:06pmMoonset: 3:21am

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• Here are some terms and definitions relating to meteors.