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Tales of the King: Watch as the Moon Occults Regulus for North America This Weekend
Up early Sunday morning? Or perhaps, as we often do, you're “pulling an all-nighter,” out observing until the break of dawn. Well, the clockwork celestial mechanics of the Universe has a treat in store on the morning of October 15th, as the waning crescent Moon occults (passes in front of) the bright star Regulus (Alpha Leonis the "Little King" or "Heart of the Lion") for the contiguous United States, Mexico and southern Canada.
David Dickinson