Although there are plenty of exceptions, many of us tend to remember the good times and forget the bad ones. In astronomy the opposite may be true. When a big event like a total eclipse, meteor shower or comet is expected, amateur astronomers will jokingly forecast overcast skies. We've been burned so many times before, we remember the misses and forget the "hits," when everything worked out just fine.

Let's hope for a hit we'll never forget on Friday, Sept. 19. That's when three unrelated celestial objects will gather in a visual spectacle between about 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. In order of distance, they are the slender, waning crescent moon, Venus and Regulus, the brightest star in Leo the lion. If they were in the same general part of the sky, this wouldn't be news. But all three will fit wit

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