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Five Planets and a Moon
« on: June 22, 2022, 07:25:22 PM »
For the next few days, you can see five planets and the moon in alignment in the predawn sky. I'm always up at that time anyway, and we've finally been getting a streak of cloud free days, so I'm going to check it out. Won't happen again until 2040.

https://www.space.com/five-planets-align-rare-skywatching-june-2022
« Last Edit: June 22, 2022, 09:16:26 PM by Ben »
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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2022, 07:39:46 PM »
Fascinating!

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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2022, 09:16:13 PM »
Oops!  :rofl:

Fixed in the OP.
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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2022, 12:02:56 AM »
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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2022, 10:02:10 AM »
I'll probably check it out, too . . . but from where I'm at, it would take a lot more effort than its worth to go to a vantage point where I'd have a good chance of spotting Mercury.

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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2022, 10:11:36 AM »
I checked it out this morning. It was pretty neat. I'll be looking tomorrow morning as well. This is the first celestial event in the last couple of years where I got both no clouds and an unobstructed view. A couple of the last ones were cloud free but blocked by mountains.
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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2022, 12:30:41 PM »
Looked at it this morning - saw 4 of 5 planets, as expected no Mercury. Hauled out my old Celestron C90 telescope, viewed Saturn's rings then turned it towards Jupiter and saw all 4 of Jupiter's Galilean satellites.
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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2022, 12:35:17 PM »
Looked at it this morning - saw 4 of 5 planets, as expected no Mercury. Hauled out my old Celestron C90 telescope, viewed Saturn's rings then turned it towards Jupiter and saw all 4 of Jupiter's Galilean satellites.

Yeah, I needed binos to see everything.
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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2022, 12:39:05 PM »
 I start work at 5am and have been watching this for weeks, still haven't seen Mercury.  Uranus is halfway between Venus and Mars by the moon right now, but you can't see it without optics, I've got a Celestron 127EQ I've been setting up on the weekend.
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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2022, 01:04:45 PM »
That's no moon
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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2022, 03:35:37 PM »
I went for a walk very early this morning and didn't even think about this.  I did get to see a raccoon and her kit though.

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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2022, 05:31:35 PM »
I've got mountain pollution on the west side and tree pollution on the east side.  I may be able to get a peep through a small break in the trees.  I'll check my XASTRO program to see exactly where they'll all be.

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Re: Five Planets and a Moon
« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2022, 06:21:28 PM »
Uranus is halfway between Venus and Mars

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