Spectacular Conjunction

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I was so nearly toseeked on this

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some of us have been talking about it for months

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I'm going to our vacation home, looking West over the Strait of Juan de Fuca. And the weather is predicted to be lousy all weekend.

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I mean this NASA story....


I got venus lastnight couldn't find mercury though(dang tree's).

On the saturday I'll be at the glass house mountains- tackinling one. I might be able to get some photo's (need a smaller more portable tripod though....)

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Mickal: See the Mercury thread

With the full moon as a bonus

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Arggh, what a brief moment of pleasure at 9:15 pm...a blip in time before the cloudcover emasculated Venus's brightness. Not even Jupiter could withstand the mean clouds, though it managed to reappear, along with a few other bright stars that I have a hard time identifying since there are no constellations to connect the dots! Lucky me, I could make out the handle, and Mizar/Alcor of Ursa Major, but forget the rest of it--even with binoculars--its spoon was invisible.

That's sort of a rant; I hope others had better weather, and longer view time. At least there was a lovely warm breeze to go along with the salmon night-sky. :x



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so that's why women are from Venus, men are from Mars

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Lol. Why, because women are brighter?

What are you doing up so late, or so early? Did you see them?

Whoa, car crash....

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Hey, well I just went outside with my binoculars and 'scope and saw it. It was great! I even managed to drag the parents outside for a squiz.

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I just had a look, saw it just before it sank behind the house next door.. That's the first time I've ever (knowingly) seen Mercury. Now I can post in that thread, too! Unfortunately, I only have a pair of broken binoculars to view with, but it was still spectacular!
Hope you guys up north are getting a good view... 8)

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The only other time I have seen Mercury was 2 years ago (around about this time of year) when it was nearby Jupiter. I had to drive all the way to my grandma's place to see it (too many trees and junk where I live to see stuff near the horizon).

It looks kinda browny for some reason...and the disc is much more apparent than Venus'. Seeing them both with Saturn (I managed to get Mercury and Venus in the same field of view with my 8" dob) was amazing...and to think that in distance away from us: Venus, Mercury...the sun, and then all that way away on the other side of the sun is Saturn....well...it's pretty cool. 8)

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Venus's disk is 70% wider than Mercury's now, perhaps you got them backwards in the eyepiece?

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Well, even if I mistook which planet had a more visible phase, it would be pretty difficult to mix up the brightnesses. :P

But I have pretty bad eyesight, so anything's possible. 8-[

EDIT: sorry, I read your post wrong.....what I meant to say in my original post, was that Mercury has a bigger "bite" taken out of it, which makes it's phase more easier to distinguish.

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Last night there was a line of thunderstorms towering above the western horizon, so viewing the conjunction was a no-go.

This evening, after thunderstorms in the afternoon, the sky cleared out with just a few scattered altocumulus. It was fun watching the sequence of planets show up in my 7x50s, first Venus, then Mercury immediately to the lower right of Venus, and then Saturn, directly below the first two, forming a distorted version of Triangulum.

All three fit in the 24X field of my 4.25 RFT. What an incredible sight! Looking forward to tomorrow's <1/10 degree separation between Venus and Mercury!

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Managed to catch Venus and Mercury with my telescope last night but a cloud was obscuring Saturn (kind of looked like Venus was sitting on a cloud bank. spooky). Then clouds rolled in for good.

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Man, I'm such a dope. Sunday, the one evening it was clear enough to see this, I forgot to go out and look at it.