Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Watch the LIVE broadcast of a super-rare Major Standstill Southern lunar transit at Griffith Observatory on August 5th! youtube.com/live/HB324q7Xkxc?si=_7fFH6VPOqj5na6g

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
0:11 Titan shadow transit of Saturn
1:48 Rare arrangement of Moon and Antares
2:04 Perseid meteor shower
2:25 Jupiter and Venus conjunction
2:39 Mercury at greatest elongation
2:57 Eastern constellations of early autumn
3:21 Southern constellations of early autumn
3:43 Western constellations of early autumn
4:07 Finding Saturn
4:26 Finding Venus and Jupiter
5:04 Finding Mars
5:24 Stellafane segment with Ella
8:39 Lunar calendar
9:00 Outro

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