This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn
in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same
time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
In article <vn6pvn$b64j$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn
in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same
time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
I believe Uranus is also visible but only with a telescope. Although
given Galileo spotted it without realizing it was a planet, maybe
you don't need much of a telescope.
In article <vn6pvn$b64j$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn
in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same
time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
I believe Uranus is also visible but only with a telescope. Although
given Galileo spotted it without realizing it was a planet, maybe
you don't need much of a telescope.
In article <vn6qac$h7g$1@reader2.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
In article <vn6pvn$b64j$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn
in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same
time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
I believe Uranus is also visible but only with a telescope. Although
given Galileo spotted it without realizing it was a planet, maybe you
don't need much of a telescope.
I believe that you need a very dark sky (not easily available in the
21st Century).
On 1/26/2025 8:11 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn
in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same
time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
pt
Don't Look Up.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dont_look_up_2021
Lynn
On 1/27/2025 4:20 AM, D wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 1/26/2025 8:11 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn >>>> in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same
time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
pt
Don't Look Up.
 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dont_look_up_2021
Lynn
Excellent movie! Shows the horror of a world where wokeness has gone too
far and the damage it could do to our planet. Highly recommended!
How so?
The end would have been the same regardless of people's political
opinions.
It wasn't wokeness that 'damaged the planet'.
I believe Uranus is also visible but only with a telescope. Although
given Galileo spotted it without realizing it was a planet, maybe
you don't need much of a telescope.
On 1/27/2025 4:20 AM, D wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 1/26/2025 8:11 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn >>>> in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same
time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
pt
Don't Look Up.
 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dont_look_up_2021
Lynn
Excellent movie! Shows the horror of a world where wokeness has gone too
far and the damage it could do to our planet. Highly recommended!
How so?
The end would have been the same regardless of people's political
opinions.
It wasn't wokeness that 'damaged the planet'.
pt
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:
On 1/27/2025 4:20 AM, D wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 1/26/2025 8:11 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn >>>>> in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same >>>>> time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
pt
Don't Look Up.
?? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dont_look_up_2021
Lynn
Excellent movie! Shows the horror of a world where wokeness has gone too >>> far and the damage it could do to our planet. Highly recommended!
How so?
The end would have been the same regardless of people's political
opinions.
It wasn't wokeness that 'damaged the planet'.
If you've been under a rock for the last several months,
you may not be aware that the "D" poster has identified
itself explicitly as a troll.
Indeed, the point of the movie was to ridicule climate
change deniers and trolls.
On 1/27/25 2:34 PM, William Hyde wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
In article <vn6pvn$b64j$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn >>>> in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same
time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
I believe Uranus is also visible but only with a telescope. Although
given Galileo spotted it without realizing it was a planet, maybe
you don't need much of a telescope.
Uranus is a bit brighter than magnitude six, most of the time, and can be
seen with normal vision in an unpolluted sky.
Even in the darkest of skies I have never been able to see anything dimmer >> than magnitude 5.5, but I had a friend in undergrad astronomy
who could see 6.5.
Flamsteed in the late 1600s observed it several times, cataloging
it, according to wikipedia anyway, as 34 Tauri.
Wikipedia also says it may have been seen by Hipparchus in 128
BC. I did not know that.
William Hyde
I was pretty excited to catch Uranus with my decent binoculars last summer. This leaves Neptune and Pluto as the last ones I haven't seen with my binoculars or telescope[1]. Since I'm too lazy to pull out the well-packed-away telescope, it will probably be a few years before I can catch Neptune. I doubt I have the equipment or ability to ever see Pluto on my own.
Tony
[1] Whether one counts Pluto as a planet or not, I'd still like to see it.
This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn
in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same
time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
pt
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:11:03 -0500, Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote in <vn6pvn$b64j$1@dont-email.me>:
This evening, I stood outside my house, and could see Venus and Saturn
in the western sky, and Jupiter and Mars in the eastern, at the same
time.
Sometimes its worthwhile to look up.
pt
With binoculars, one can sometimes see tiny pinpricks of light
around Jupiter -- the Galilean moons.
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