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On 2002-12-05 14:31, Venoma wrote:
David - take a look at the link I posted. They were so close they were touching - and I would have noticed 2 very bright objects right next to each other. The next closest object was a dim star.
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I did take a look at the link, and no, they weren't touching. The problem is that the map's resolution is not very high, so at that scale they
appear to be touching. But if you increase it to about 1000 pixels or more, you can see that they have a reasonable seperation between them.
But I will admit they are very close, closer than I expected. At that distance, the glare of Venus might be so bright that it would make Mars almost invisible to naked-eye vision.