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1 posted on
10/26/2015 8:12:40 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv; All
From Sky & Telescope Magazine...
(Venus will be the brightest, then Jupiter)
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Venus-Jupiter Conjunction This Weekend!
By: Alan MacRobert | October 22, 2015Watch three planets pirouette at dawn through patterns that change each morning.
And a fourth planet hides down below.
The two brightest celestial objects after the Sun and Moon go through a close conjunction in early dawn, about an hour before sunrise. Watch them change position daily, while Mars keeps them company. Mercury is near the horizon.
Sky & Telescope diagram
4 posted on
10/26/2015 8:43:24 AM PDT by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: SunkenCiv; All
Jupiter is currently around 550 million miles from Earth, Venus 65 million, Mars 207 million, and Mercury 114 million.
source: heavens-above.com (Planets)
6 posted on
10/26/2015 8:46:57 AM PDT by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: SunkenCiv
The epicycles are in sync.
7 posted on
10/26/2015 8:48:31 AM PDT by
MUDDOG
To: SunkenCiv
This is no cellphone capture. I imagine a Sony sensor, tripod, f2.0 or lower, 100 mill1meter, 3 seconds or so.
She has to stand still.
Also, there’s Photoshop layering.
9 posted on
10/26/2015 9:02:18 AM PDT by
cicero2k
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