Jim: How early in the year depends on who late you want to stay up. How late depends on how deep into the evening twilight your willing to try. Since Spica is at about the same Right Ascension as Omega Cen I try for it visually every time Spica is on the meridian to the due south. I've seen it visually as early as February and as late as Memorial Day at latitude 41 North. DT --- On Wed, 4/1/09, Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 6:07 AM It looks like Omega Centauri NGC 5139 will reach it max Alt for the most part of April of about 2* 13.5’. Does anyone have better data?    Jim

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