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An Intriguing Experience
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Posted on 12/28/2019 3:44:38 PM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: Gay State Conservative
Venus! They will be a little closer tomorrow.
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posted on
12/28/2019 3:46:42 PM PST
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: Gay State Conservative
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posted on
12/28/2019 3:47:39 PM PST
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: Gay State Conservative
You picked a good night to go outside!
https://earthsky.org/tonight
The rule for planets is that they don’t twinkle, just a solid light. You can easily see Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn (but not its rings without optics). If you know when and where to look (and if the conditions are right), you can also see Mercury and Youranus. Forget Neptune and Pluto.
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posted on
12/28/2019 3:50:28 PM PST
by
BobL
(I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
To: Gay State Conservative
I saw it too here in WV. It was pretty awesome and I wondered if it was significant of anything?
To: Gay State Conservative
It could be a star, a planet, an airplane, a meteorite, or even a satellite. I have been fooled by all of them into thinking I had seen something unexplained. The key is to keep looking and do your research.
To: Gay State Conservative
You can get on the ISS email list, and youll receive emails telling you when the space station will be flying over your area.
If it happens to do so on a clear spring or summer evening at sunset, the diminishing sunlight might hit the solar panels at just the right angle.
The effect will look like the ISS is dropping bombs from orbit.
Looks pretty cool.
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posted on
12/28/2019 3:54:52 PM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
To: Gay State Conservative
In Cam Đức, a small town in 2003 when I went out at night the sky was blanketed with millions of stars and the Milky Way looked like a picture in Discover. In 2019 with the electricity being reliable now and not going out for days at a time, it's not like that any more. Too much light from the now city. One can see the moon and a dozen stars, maybe.
To: BobL; outofsalt
If you know when and where to look (and if the conditions are right), you can also see Mercury and Youranus. Forget Neptune and Pluto.Amazing! I think that this is the first time I've ever seen a planet.As I said...I very much want to visit the Atacama Desert...now more then ever.
And BTW...you leave my backside of of this! Understood? ;-)
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posted on
12/28/2019 3:56:38 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
To: Gay State Conservative
I have apps on my phone for this.
To: Gay State Conservative
To: Gay State Conservative
GoSkyWatchP the app.
Looking for something? The app will point to it. Wonder what something is? Just point and see.
Good sky app.
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posted on
12/28/2019 3:59:33 PM PST
by
coaster123
(Those 40 or younger will meet horror before they meet death.)
To: Gay State Conservative
That light is a reflection of all the choking CO
2 that man-made climate change
TM has caused from all the capitalism that's going on here on Mother Erf.
If you don't believe me you're a denier!
HOW DARE YOU!!
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posted on
12/28/2019 4:01:48 PM PST
by
PROCON
(Molon Labe)
To: ThanhPhero
Am I correct to think that you're referring to a town/village in Vietnam? If so I can imagine that there are areas where one doesn't get a lot of artificial light. For that matter there are such places in North America...particularly in the west.
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posted on
12/28/2019 4:01:50 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
To: PROCON
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posted on
12/28/2019 4:02:31 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
To: Gay State Conservative
Yea, I have better things to look at, regardless of your name.
Haven’t been to Atacama, but it’s definitely bitchin’. You won’t see the North Star or Big/Little Dipper there, but you will get a great look at Orion (assuming your timing is correct) - other cool stuff too!
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posted on
12/28/2019 4:05:53 PM PST
by
BobL
(I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
To: Gay State Conservative
I can imagine that there are areas where one doesn't get a lot of artificial light. For that matter there are such places in North America...particularly in the west.I'm lucky that I live in one of those dark sky areas, east of the Sierra Nevada in California and west of Tonopah, NV. On clear nights easy to see the Milky Way
To: coaster123
I might check that out. But I think that Post #4 and #11 precisely depicted what I saw. It's probably a good thing that I don't live in rural Nevada or Arizona...otherwise I'd probably be spending a fortune on telescopes and spending many nights outside.
Actually something just occurred to me...unless I'm mistaken MIT (which isn't far from me) has one or more observation/research telescopes and I recall that they sometimes open them to the general public. I think I'll check that out.
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posted on
12/28/2019 4:10:34 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
To: Gay State Conservative
One time when my DH and I were anchored off the coast of Maine there was a sight I’ll never forget and can see it as I type. We were about nine miles off the coast anchored near an island and the water was as still as I’d ever seen it. Just a sheet of glass, and it was a dark and starry night. The Stars SHONE on the water surface!!! What a sight!
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posted on
12/28/2019 4:12:14 PM PST
by
Exit148
To: Gay State Conservative
Venus does this every once in a while.
I think one of the most wonderful thing I've ever seen was a night time sky when I camped out in the Utah deserts.
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posted on
12/28/2019 4:13:04 PM PST
by
lizma2
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