Thread: Venus and jupiter...

Did anyone see them earlier this week?
I was out at the stables on monday. I looked over at the moon and noticed two really bright 'stars' near it. they caught my attention because they were so bright, but I didn't know what they were...it was really strange and I ended up just standing for ages in a field full of mud and unhappy horses watching the moon :lol: On tuesday I was looking on another forum and someone happened to mention a 'conjunction', and I realised that's what I'd seen.

I like the fact that some people got to see a big smiley face in the sky!
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Too much clod over the Midlands for any kind of stargazing ...

I do see Venus quite often though - and when i was in uni Mars dominated the horizon every night!

I need to go reclaim my telescope and find a nice open spot for some planet watching!

Yup, Jupiter and Venus in a bit of a conjunction it was indeedy. And a glorious sight at that

What scope you got Fleur? I did have a TAL M2 till the "observatory" roof broke one stormy night and flooded the whole damned thing to death.................Well, I have had several scopes but that was the latest one!


John

I saw it!! But, like you, I didn't realise that is what I was seeing until the day after.
It was beautiful.
xx

Originally Posted by The Minister Of Magic.

What scope you got Fleur?

It's only a babby - a Meade AT-70X, I do believe. It's cute! I haven't been able to play with it for ages though because I haven't lived anywhere with a good field of vision for a long long time - not since I was in halls at uni, in fact, which is a good five or six years ago. My parents currently have it in storage - but I intend to get it out and use it up on the hill nearby when the clouds go ...

There's a telescope in my house somewhere too. In fact there might be two, but there are so many big trees here that I doubt I'd see much anyway
Sometimes I remember to look online and see what's meant to be in the sky at certain times, but most of the time it's either too cloudy, or I don't know about things til after they've happened!

My mother-in-laws new hubby thought he was going to go on a "one upmanship" thing with me about Astronomy when he met me two years ish ago...........Bloody fool! He would not shut up for about three weeks about how great he was at astronomy then he decoded one day to try to tell Louise "all about" sunspots so, Princess read him chapter and verse in laymans terms exactly what the current theories were about sunspots. When she finished he says to her in a real gruff and superior voice "How could YOU know all THAT!" Louise looked at him all sweet and says "Because John has studied Astronomy non stop since June 7th 1968, started two Astronomy soceities at schools he was at, has some of his work published in school magazines and went to glasgow University ofr night school classes in Practacle Astronomy in the 70's" He has NEVER mantioned Astronomy again other than to try and catch me out with "happenings". Shit, I read Astronomy Now, Sky And Telescope, am online in all the Astronomy societies, a member of the BAS fer shits sake, hopefully a member of the FRAS soon as well!! Why don't he just shrivel up and go away?

Anyway Fleur, the scope is a goodun for planets and solar astronomy if you get a Baader filter sheet and make up a sun filter and it gives bloody good views of the moon.


John

Originally Posted by The Minister Of Magic.

Anyway Fleur, the scope is a goodun for planets and solar astronomy if you get a Baader filter sheet and make up a sun filter and it gives bloody good views of the moon.

I know. I set it up to let my mates look at the Terminator, and adapted it to watch the Transit of Venus ...

Originally Posted by Fleur du Mal

I know. I set it up to let my mates look at the Terminator, and adapted it to watch the Transit of Venus ...

Venus Transit was totally awesome!! As is listening to folks's gasps when they look at the Terminator and see these little brilliant sparks like diamonds on a black cloth appearing and they don't know it is the tops of mountains, some of them taller than Everest.

John

Wow, I'm on the verge of being inpired again!