1.   As an astronomical event, it has surpassed all expectations.

2.   As an astronomical event, it was a bust.

3.   At no time since have the three astronomical events happened as close together.

4.   But the beginning and end of a season is an astronomical event, not a meteorological one.

5.   The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams is an international clearinghouse and we are under constant pressure to disclose timely information about astronomical events.

6.   The solstice, an astronomical event, is when the noontime sun is directly overhead at the Tropic of Cancer.

7.   Tourists, scientists and even new age eclipse chasers have come to Zambia for the astronomical event.

8.   Whitelock was puzzled as to why it failed to deliver what had been billed as the astronomical event of the century.

9.   Other star gazers reached by telephone described the astronomical event in equally glowing terms.