Venus & Saturn "close encounter"

[Palomar]

Visually, anyway.

From spaceweather.com:

PLANETS ALIGN: Venus and Saturn are converging for a close encounter on June 30th when the pair will be only 2/3o apart. You can watch the distance shrink in the nights ahead. Step outside after sundown and look west. Venus is the brightest object in the sky; Saturn is the yellow dot right beside it.

Sky map for June 25:

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2007/25j...kymap_north.gif (http://www.spaceweather.com/images2007/25jun07/skymap_north.gif)

June 30:

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2007/30j...kymap_north.gif (http://www.spaceweather.com/images2007/30jun07/skymap_north.gif)

[Tucson_Tim]

Looking forward to it! And of course it will be clear - it's Arizona! :)

[Window Washer]

Venus and Saturn are always very closely aligned. This time, the earth is too.

[Tucson_Tim]

Venus and Saturn are always very closely aligned. This time, the earth is too.

Are you being funny or are you serious? :confused:

[Window Washer]

Are you being funny or are you serious? :confused:

Well, it's true - this requires Venus, Saturn, and Earth all to be lined up. Whether it is funny or not, I don't know.

[Tucson_Tim]

Well, it's true - this requires Venus, Saturn, and Earth all to be lined up. Whether it is funny or not, I don't know.

They are always closely aligned? :confused:

[Window Washer]

They are always closely aligned? :confused:

From some point of view. Just not ours.

[Tucson_Tim]

From some point of view. Just not ours.

OK. :whistle:

[Tucson_Tim]

(Bump) Tomorrow. :)

[Dave Mitsky]

Here are some shots of last night's conjunction of Saturn and Venus that I took from the ASH Naylor Observatory. The first one was through an 80mm Apogee short-tube refractor at prime focus, the second through a 127m Orion MCT at prime focus, and the third through a Canon 80-200mm zoom lens. These photos were taken with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel DSLR camera.

Dave Mitsky

[Tucson_Tim]

Nice pics Dave. Especially the center one.

[slotdrag]

I had them in the scope but smoke from fire works and cloud cover moved in didnt have time for pictures.

[Dave Mitsky]

Here's an 80-200mm zoom lens shot of Venus and Saturn on Sunday night from the town of Camp Hill.

Dave Mitsky

[Dave Mitsky]

I took these photos on Monday night from a hill near my residence. The first one shows Venus and Saturn over the city of Harrisburg. The other two are from slightly different locations showing different perspectives.

Dave Mitsky