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Old 06-04-2009, 08:40 AM Jim143 is offline     #3 (permalink)
Thanks

I will look into your links further. I find it interesting that the information you provided says "early in the year", yet everything I have read was that it can be visible in the summer months. I will be there on July 1st - which is why I was interested about seeing it. I knew the lights of Nassau might be too much, so I was hoping to see it either the night after Cococay on the way to Nassau - or when we leave Nassau on the way back to Port Canaveral.

After I posted this question, I did read at a NASA related site that even though it can be seen below the 30th parallel, it is so low in the sky that the atmosphere near the horizon might be too "hazy" to actually see it clearly.

I will keep looking, both now before we leave - looking for more information and once we get on the ship - looking for the actual stars. . . .