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Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Rich Talcott explains how to find a few objects in the spring sky using nothing more than your binoculars. Highlights include Venus, the Big Dipper, and the Beehive Star Cluster (M44).
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In this video, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Rich Talcott discusses objects you can see with your naked eyes and binoculars in the 2009 spring sky. The season offers several bright planets, notable constellations, and bright deep-sky objects.

Objects include Venus, Saturn, Mercury, Jupiter, the star Spica, the Big Dipper, the star Polaris, the constellation Leo the Lion, and the Beehive Star Cluster (M44).

We've placed the transcript of this video on our blog at Astronomy.com/blogs.

You can locate all the night-sky sights he talks about by using Astronomy.com's interactive star chart — StarDome.
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