Zedta
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:Look: Watch in the western sky (you can see the players coming together even now) in the evening after sunset. By December 1st, Jupiter, Venus and the crescent moon will converge.
Just nice eye candy or a sign, much like what the Maji saw in their eastern sky?
Unusual, non-the-less and indeed...BEAUTIFUL!
Zedta
SKY NIGHTLY
Spectacular Conjunction
Venus and Jupiter converging over Hawaii on Nov. 19, 2008. Photo credit and copyright: Stephen O'Meara.
Dr. Tony Phillips
Science@NASA
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 25, 2008
This story ends with the best sky show of the year--a spectacular three-way conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and the crescent Moon. It begins tonight with a sunset stroll.
At the end of the day, when the horizon is turning red and the zenith is cobalt-blue, step outside and look southwest. You'll see Venus and Jupiter beaming side-by-side through the twilight. Glittering Venus is absolutely brilliant and Jupiter is nearly as bright as Venus.
Add another stick of TNT and voila!-it's tomorrow. Go outside at the same time and look again. You'll be amazed at how much the Venus-Jupiter gap has closed. The two planets are converging, not in the slow motion typical of heavenly phenomena, but in a headlong rush-almost a full degree (two full Moon widths) per night. As the gap shrinks, the beauty increases.
On Nov. 29th the two planets will be less than 3 degrees apart and you'll think to yourself "surely it can't get any better than this."
And then it will. On Nov. 30th a slender 10% crescent Moon leaps up from the horizon to join the show. The delicate crescent hovering just below Venus-Jupiter will have cameras clicking around the world.
Full article at:
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001zMG4F4uw...eGbQf7jH_VpHCbLNPO1qEQcUuLI4GZ-jqqW2AAwskpI4=
Just nice eye candy or a sign, much like what the Maji saw in their eastern sky?
Unusual, non-the-less and indeed...BEAUTIFUL!
Zedta
SKY NIGHTLY
Spectacular Conjunction
Venus and Jupiter converging over Hawaii on Nov. 19, 2008. Photo credit and copyright: Stephen O'Meara.
Dr. Tony Phillips
Science@NASA
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 25, 2008
This story ends with the best sky show of the year--a spectacular three-way conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and the crescent Moon. It begins tonight with a sunset stroll.
At the end of the day, when the horizon is turning red and the zenith is cobalt-blue, step outside and look southwest. You'll see Venus and Jupiter beaming side-by-side through the twilight. Glittering Venus is absolutely brilliant and Jupiter is nearly as bright as Venus.
Add another stick of TNT and voila!-it's tomorrow. Go outside at the same time and look again. You'll be amazed at how much the Venus-Jupiter gap has closed. The two planets are converging, not in the slow motion typical of heavenly phenomena, but in a headlong rush-almost a full degree (two full Moon widths) per night. As the gap shrinks, the beauty increases.
On Nov. 29th the two planets will be less than 3 degrees apart and you'll think to yourself "surely it can't get any better than this."
And then it will. On Nov. 30th a slender 10% crescent Moon leaps up from the horizon to join the show. The delicate crescent hovering just below Venus-Jupiter will have cameras clicking around the world.
Full article at:
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001zMG4F4uw...eGbQf7jH_VpHCbLNPO1qEQcUuLI4GZ-jqqW2AAwskpI4=
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