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Old 26-June-2007, 06:04 PM
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Lightbulb Venus & Saturn "close encounter"
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

June 30:

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2007/30j...kymap_north.gif
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Looking forward to it! And of course it will be clear - it's Arizona!
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Venus and Saturn are always very closely aligned. This time, the earth is too.
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Venus and Saturn are always very closely aligned. This time, the earth is too.
Are you being funny or are you serious?
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Are you being funny or are you serious?
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.
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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?
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They are always closely aligned?
From some point of view. Just not ours.
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From some point of view. Just not ours.
OK.
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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.

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Nice pics Dave. Especially the center one.
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I had them in the scope but smoke from fire works and cloud cover moved in didnt have time for pictures.
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Here's an 80-200mm zoom lens shot of Venus and Saturn on Sunday night from the town of Camp Hill.

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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.

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