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The Hong Kong Observatory Almanac 2012 is now on sale.
The Almanac is bilingual (English and Chinese) and packed with information, including the traditional Chinese calendar, solar terms and moon phases, as well as the times of daily sunrise, sun transit, sunset, moonrise, moon transit, moonset, high and low tides, arranged month by month. The times of meridian passage and the rising and setting of the sun and planets are graphically illustrated. Also included in the publication are star maps of the four quarters of the year, duration of twilight, details of solar and lunar eclipses, the transit of Venus, background information on calendars, determination of apparent solar time, observation of meteor streams and planetary phenomena as well as monthly climatological information of Hong Kong and selected world cities.
At $22 a copy, the almanac is available for sale at the Hong Kong Observatory Resource Centre, the Publications Sales Unit of the Information Services Department, the Kowloon Map Publications Centre of the Lands Department, General Post Office, Tsim Sha Tsui Post Office, Tuen Mun Central Post Office and Sha Tin Central Post Office. An electronic book-ordering service is also available at the online Government Bookstore at www.bookstore.gov.hk.
For further information, please contact Experimental Officer of the Observatory, Miss Shum Kit-ying, at 2926 8240.
Ends/Friday, December 23, 2011
Issued at HKT 11:34
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