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Night Sky Map and Planets Visible Tonight

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Re: Night Sky Map and Planets Visible Tonight

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Post by samwillis »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #2

Coincidental timing (or maybe not?). On my walk tonight, I noticed that Saturn and Jupiter were super bright

If you imagine a line from Jupiter to Saturn and continue it again about the same amount (roughly down to the right in the northern hemisphere) you should see Venus, should be brighter than Jupiter.

Re: Night Sky Map and Planets Visible Tonight

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Post by gorgoiler »

Tempest1981 wrote: post #6

Is this what we missed? > LOOK UP! Rare space event tonight as Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Moon line up - how to see > https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1533360/space-news-as...

Have a look tomorrow and tell me they aren’t kind of lined up again.

It’s very exciting to see this at sunset. Tilt your head so that the solar system is flat and you can truly feel that you are on the side of a sphere with the sun in the middle and the planets in the plane.

Venus is coming towards you (looking down on the system, the planets rotate counter clockwise.) Try to imagine what that will look like in the sky.

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Post by mattcwilson »

gorgoiler wrote: post #7
Tempest1981 wrote: post #6

Is this what we missed? > LOOK UP! Rare space event tonight as Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Moon line up - how to see > https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1533360/space-news-as...

Have a look tomorrow and tell me they aren’t kind of lined up again. It’s very exciting to see this at sunset. Tilt your head so that the solar system is flat and you can truly feel that you are on the side of a sphere with the sun in the middle and the planets in the plane. Venus is coming towards you (looking down on the system, the planets rotate counter clockwise.) Try to imagine what that will look like in the s…

Isn’t “down” in space “towards the nearest/strongest gravity well?”

I’m surmising that what you mean is, if you headed towards Polaris far enough to get perspective on the entire solar system, then from that vantage point the orbits are counterclockwise?

Re: Night Sky Map and Planets Visible Tonight

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #2

Coincidental timing (or maybe not?). On my walk tonight, I noticed that Saturn and Jupiter were super bright

They've been that way for more than a month. Jupiter is waning in intensity ... a month ago, they were of comparable brightness.
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