[pasmembers] Re: 5 planets at dawn

From: Ted Blank <tedblank@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:37:11 -0700

Of course, Jupiter and Saturn are *slightly* farther away than pictured.
:-)

Ted

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Howard Moneta <hmoneta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Ted. That diagram helps to understand what is happening.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:04 PM Ted Blank <tedblank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Pete, I agree, and thought it might be helpful to show "why" we can see
them.

In this image from the solar system viewer at www.fourmilab.ch, you can
see why our current position w/respect to the sun and the other planets
lets us see five of them.

Ted Blank

[image: Inline image 1]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Peter Turner <peteturner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I went out to look at them this morning and was wondering what all the
fuss was about.  The distance between Venus in the east and Jupiter in the
Southwest took up 2/3 of the sky.  I will say that both Venus and Jupiter
appeared very large and bright in the sky.  It was about 6:30AM.

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Is anyone interested in having a short star party before dawn in the
next week so 5 planets can be seen through telescopes?
Since some of us are going to be at PVCC Blk Mountain Friday Jan 29th at
8:30 am, why not go nuts and meet there a few hours earlier
to show the 5 planets. If PVCC Blk Mtn won't let us on campus that
early, maybe we can meet at Mike's place, only a few miles away.
We could open this up to the public and do a press release, or, forget
the whole thing and sleep in. Any thoughts.  Sam

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