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Tomorrow night!Watch the skies!!!
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:53 am
by echo wanderer
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/081121- ... -moon.html
After Dec. 1, like two celestial ships passing in the night, the planets will slowly separate, but there will still be one more eye-catching sight to see. For on that very same evening, those who gaze toward the south-southwest sky for up to about two hours after sunset arise will be treated to a spectacular sight as Venus, Jupiter and the crescent moon cluster closely together. The trio will form a wide isosceles triangle, with Venus at the vertex.
Cthulu is coming...
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:23 am
by nousd
Fug it...cloudy
no transcendent smiley to the southwest
have to wait till 2030s now.
btw, Jupiter conjunct Venus & Moon is very propitious (meaning fortunate).
I need an ephemeris to ascertain the exact conjunction but i hope it is tommorrow.
Astrologically
(not that i believe that shit
)
it suggests a rewarding relationship between
a mature, wise, well-travelled or philosophically-inclined man
and a young woman + her mother/her feminine essence/the security of home.
It is an opportunity to resolve the mental & the intuitive,
according to humanistic astrology as conceived by Dane Rudhyer.
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:20 am
by Maree-Jaine
Wait did I see those two planets in the sky the other night? Saturday at about oooh 5pm?
I saw two really MASSIVE shiny bits int sky...thought they might be planets but they looked really HUGE - so was convinced of UFO-age...
Moon wasn't about tho, but it was very foggy.
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:54 pm
by echo wanderer
SD5 wrote:
Astrologically
(not that i believe that shit
)
it suggests a rewarding relationship between
a mature, wise, well-travelled or philosophically-inclined man
and a young woman + her mother/her feminine essence/the security of home.
It is an opportunity to resolve the mental & the intuitive,
according to humanistic astrology as conceived by Dane Rudhyer.
Woohoo!
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:56 pm
by echo wanderer
Toni wrote:Wait did I see those two planets in the sky the other night? Saturday at about oooh 5pm?
I saw two really MASSIVE shiny bits int sky...thought they might be planets but they looked really HUGE - so was convinced of UFO-age...
Yup.The super bright one is Venus and the smaller bright one is Jupiter.Venus came through like a fuckin' halogen last night!!
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:37 pm
by kaatr
"isosceles triangle"?
Looks like a scalene to me
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:24 pm
by echo wanderer
kaatr wrote:"isosceles triangle"?
Looks like a scalene to me
Yeah...you would think people with PhDs in calculus,physics,and astronomy would know better!
Then again,you might be going by the picture,which is in fact,a scalene triangle.For the event it should mold into an isosceles.
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:37 pm
by misk
saw this the last two nights. fucking cool. got the telescope out and everything. Friends and I live out in the mountains, so theres very little light pollution - which means seeing the milky way almost every night.
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:46 pm
by beerz
cant see. fucking clouds. wt a shame.
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:12 pm
by misk
its crazy, because you can see the dark part of the crescent moon illuminated brighter than it normally is. when we looked at it through the telescope, we noticed that not only could we see craters and maria (even on the dark part of the moon) but that it looked more spherical than it normally does.
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:30 am
by echo wanderer
Misk wrote:its crazy, because you can see the dark part of the crescent moon illuminated brighter than it normally is. when we looked at it through the telescope, we noticed that not only could we see craters and maria (even on the dark part of the moon) but that it looked more spherical than it normally does.
YEAH!
Oh man...
It's really beautiful.They were saying that you can see the entire surface of the moon because of various combined reflections from the sun and Venus(or something to that effect).
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:56 am
by djelements
I SAW IT
IT LOOKS SO COOL OH MAN
THAT IS SERIOUSLY SO COOL
MAN OH MAN
FUCKING BALLS ON A TREE
IT IS GOD DAMN COOL
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:06 am
by sri
that was amazing! glad i got to witness it.
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:20 am
by nousd
joo score EW?
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:40 am
by echo wanderer
SD5 wrote:joo score EW?
Hahahaha!!!
I wish!
Luckily this will be hanging about a lil' bit longer!
You?
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:42 am
by echo wanderer
DJelements wrote:I SAW IT
IT LOOKS SO COOL OH MAN
THAT IS SERIOUSLY SO COOL
MAN OH MAN
FUCKING BALLS ON A TREE
IT IS GOD DAMN COOL
The spirit of MC BUFFALO flows through you grasshopper.
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:08 am
by fooishbar
pfft, it was way cooler down here.
photo by
haalo
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:02 am
by echo wanderer
fooishbar wrote:pfft, it was way cooler down here.
photo by
haalo
Shut it!
Nice photo!
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:21 am
by nousd
Nah
nada.
That's why I don't believe.