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bots 27-03-2023 02:54 PM

Five planets to line up in night sky TONIGHT
 
Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Mars, and the Moon will align in an arc across the evening sky on Monday, with some visible to the naked eye.

This is often called "a planetary parade" and will be visible after sunset in the west.

A good view of the horizon and clear skies will offer the best chance of spotting the alignment.

Last summer Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn came together in a rare planetary conjunction.

"To the naked eye, even from a bright city, Jupiter, Venus, the Moon, and Mars should be easily visible. Uranus should be visible with a medium-sized telescope, and Mercury is that added challenge for the very determined," said astronomer Jake Foster from Royal Observatory Greenwich.

He said that such alignments were very particular to our perspective from Earth.

"The planets aren't aligned right now, they are all spread out across the Solar System but just from our perspective, every once in a while they get close enough to each other in the sky that we're able to see quite a few at once," he said.

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Give yourself the best shot at spotting them by getting away from any bright city lights as the Sun is going down. Go somewhere with a clear, unobstructed view. You need to be observing early in the evening because Mercury and Jupiter will quickly disappear over the horizon.

The easiest way to know whether you're looking at planets or stars is by looking at what type of light they are emitting.

"Stars twinkle but planets don't. So if you are are seeing a bright light that is steady and not flickering or twinkling and not blinking - because that might be a plane - then you are almost certainly looking at one of those planets," said Mr Foster.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65056407

Crimson Dynamo 27-03-2023 02:58 PM

I shall take a pic as long as the cloud that is to spill in from West does not arrive first

Beso 27-03-2023 04:31 PM

Jake Fosters a bit of a knob.

Cherie 27-03-2023 05:14 PM

Its clear here at the mo so may see them

Beso 27-03-2023 06:32 PM

I was having a ciggy out the window last night and caught a cracking picture of the moon at the same time.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6f66bf22e8.jpg

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arista 27-03-2023 11:43 PM

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/l...93fd2a5ba.jpeg

Cherie 28-03-2023 11:44 AM

There was a full moon and I think I saw some planets but they were very high up

Crimson Dynamo 28-03-2023 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 11276597)
There was a full moon and I think I saw some planets but they were very high up

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img...=1679942994579

Beso 28-03-2023 12:01 PM

I saw them.

Crimson Dynamo 28-03-2023 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by parmnion (Post 11276608)
I saw them.

have you been looking at Uranus again?

Beso 28-03-2023 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 11276609)
have you been looking at Uranus again?

I also saw orions belt, which I originally thought the planets were.

GoldHeart 28-03-2023 08:12 PM

I don't have a telescope


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