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The South Algonquin Township Libraries, with branches in Whitney and Madawaska, will be hosting Astronomy in Action on June 5, which they dub “a spectacular first-time event bringing the cosmos ...

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How close or far is it from half? In the late 1700s, amateur astronomer Johann Schröter noted that Venus often appeared to reach dichotomy a few days before or after calculations showed it would.