Re: [Phys-L] Great Conjunction

[bernard cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Thanks!  

I must practice setting up my Celestron-8 well before.  


bc ... has suffered before by procrastinating.  

> On 2020/Nov/30, at 15:36, Anthony Lapinski <alapinski@pds.org> wrote:
>
> I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! I posted this at my school, and
> thought I'd share it with the group. I'm getting my telescope ready!
> Astronomy is FAR OUT!
>
> Mark your calendar! On December 21 Jupiter and Saturn will appear extremely
> close in the sky and will look like a double planet! They will be separated
> by only 0.1° - about 1/5 the diameter of the full Moon! It may be
> challenging to distinguish them with unaided eyes for some people. In
> reality the planets will be much farther apart - 4.8 times the distance
> between the Sun and Earth. Jupiter-Saturn pairings/conjunctions are rare
> (occur about every 20 years), but they have not been this close in the sky
> since the Middle Ages (specifically, on March 4, 1226)!

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> http://www.space.com/jupiter-saturn-great-conjunction-2020
>
> Don't miss this rare, historical, remarkable, and spectacular event!
>
> P.S. You don't have to wait until the winter solstice to see Jupiter and
> Saturn. They are visible all month. They appear 2° apart (4 moon diameters)
> on December 1. Watch them slowly move closer together every night. On
> December 16 they'll be just one Moon diameter (0.5°) apart.
>
> P.P.S. The next Great Conjunction is on Halloween, 2040, when these planets
> will be 1° apart (two Moon diameters) before sunrise.
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