Randy Muller wrote:
> I cannot tell what the exact boundaries of the nebula are, but
> fiddling around in Sky Map Pro 9, I get the following:
>
> Ingress: January 3rd, 11pm (Hey it just started!)
> Midpoint: January 4th, 4pm
> Egress: January 5th, 9am
>
> All times are PST.
>
> The midpoint is a lot more definite that the start stop times.
>From _S_&_T_: "Saturn will be in the middle of its traverse across the
Crab at roughly 23:00 Universal Time (6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time)
on the 4th. Perhaps a more interesting observing challenge will be
following Saturn's largest moon, 8.4-magnitude Titan, as it makes its
way across M1 during a 24-hour period beginning at approximately 2:00 UT
on the 5th. Note that Titan will pass only 20 arcseconds north of the
Crab's central pulsar at about 14:00 UT on the 5th."
...Bob...
Bob Czerwinski