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==Visibility== [[File:Altaïr Vega & Deneb.gif|thumb|right|The Summer Triangle in the context of the [[night sky]], with dimmer stars fading out first and then fading in last]] From [[middle latitudes|mid]]-to-tropical [[Northern Hemisphere|northern latitudes]]: *the centre of the triangle appears about [[zenith|overhead]] around [[solar midnight]] during [[summer]], and exactly so at about the [[27th parallel north]]. This means it rises at sunset in the east and sets at sunrise in the west. *it is visible in the eastern sky in early mornings during [[spring (season)|spring]]. *In autumn and winter evenings, it is visible in the western sky until January. From mid-[[Southern Hemisphere|southern latitudes]], the asterism is in the north during the culmination season described above.
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