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Post by andrewlee on Apr 22, 2009 6:54:11 GMT -6
I just saw the planet Venus being eclipsed by the crescent moon. It was a rare event to see! I'm waiting for it to appear on the other side of the moon , but it may be to light by then to see it since it is getting close to sunrise.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 24, 2009 8:00:17 GMT -6
I don't get up that early in the morning, Andrew! I do a lot of stargazing, but usually ten or eleven o'clock in the evening.
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Post by andrewlee on Apr 24, 2009 9:03:49 GMT -6
Vice Admiral Atoz....I'm still trying to get used to this...and congrats by the way!! , you can do the late night star gazing and I will do the early morning star gazing. It is already to late in the year for me to do night star gazing since I go to bed early! One thing I like to do every year is find the planet Mars and track it night by night, morning by morning as it moves in position relative to the stars around it. I also like to watch meteor showers and satellites go across the sky!
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Post by mgomez on Apr 27, 2009 7:47:48 GMT -6
I have never seen a planet, just the stars, moon, and airplanes.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 27, 2009 8:43:22 GMT -6
You've probably seen a planet, you just didn't realize it. They look like very bright stars, but they don't twinkle like stars do. Andrew, could you give us a hint where Mars is right now?
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Post by andrewlee on Apr 27, 2009 8:46:15 GMT -6
MGomez. Since you have done a lot of stargazing, you most likely did see a planet ,but did not recognize it. You could do an on-line search to find out what planets are in which constellations. Over the course of time, a planet will move in relation to the position of the stars around it.
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Post by andrewlee on Aug 15, 2009 20:17:54 GMT -6
I have been watching a yellow planet in the southern sky just after sundown. It's either Jupiter or Saturn.
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Post by Dax123 on Aug 16, 2009 2:21:46 GMT -6
Its ALWAYS clouded over here so the only planet Ive ever seen is Saturn and venus a few times. Shame. And as for the presied meteor showers...well...It was blooming clouded over!!!! Anoying weather. I was staring out my window all night for them!
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Post by andrewlee on Aug 17, 2009 19:30:07 GMT -6
I never saw any of the meteor showers because of the time they were happening. The large yellow planet is becoming more visible and is moving relative to my location more to the south from the southeast and is rising earlier.
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Post by Dax123 on Aug 18, 2009 2:41:58 GMT -6
I saw a yellow planet for about four nights about three months ago. My dad thought it was saturn so we got out the telescope and binoculers. You couldnt see anything probably because our space equipment is rubbish! We're getting a cool really advanced telescop for christmas though! Then I can do some proper sky watching
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Post by andrewlee on Aug 18, 2009 10:27:00 GMT -6
That sounds great...getting a new telescope! let me know how it works out. I have one , but it's not any better than using binoculars.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Aug 21, 2009 8:29:35 GMT -6
You mean the one in Aquarius? That is definitely Jupiter. I got out my telescope Wednesday night and had a look. I saw the four Galilean satellites and everything.
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Post by andrewlee on Aug 21, 2009 16:41:18 GMT -6
Thanks for confirming it's Jupiter. What type/kind of telescope do you have? how well did you see the moons?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Aug 22, 2009 8:02:27 GMT -6
It's not a great telescope. I could see the bands across Jupiter's atmosphere, but not the Red Spot. The moons were just pricks of light, but they were all lined up along Jupiter's equator (three on the left, one way out on the right), so that's how I knew they were the moons.
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Post by andrewlee on Aug 22, 2009 13:03:05 GMT -6
I couldn't tell what constellation Jupiter was in because of my neighbor's trees were blocking a large portion of the sky around the planet just after it rose around dusk. I don't stay up late enough to see it higher in the night sky.
Seeing the bands and the moons of jupitor is better than I can do right now as far as telescopes.
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