Hi all Early this morning, about 6 o' clock UT the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, stood together in the eastern morning sky, a spectacular sight!...
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archird
unipox
Nov 9, 2004 12:37 am
hi i am new member..and i am desperately seeking the answer to the question "How many planets (except the Earth) can be seen with unaided eye, at...
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Jeff Tibb
jefftibb
Nov 9, 2004 12:40 am
We can see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturday easily with out naked eyes (if you know where to look that is...) Uranus can be seen under ideal dark...
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Jeff Tibb
jefftibb
Nov 9, 2004 12:46 am
Er, 'with OUR naked eyes'. It's pretty tough to see things 'with out' eyes....
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Rick M
starman_962
Nov 9, 2004 1:26 am
Saturday... hmmm that a new planet Jeff, ;p) I have observed Uranus naked eye before and will say its not an easy one to find that way. ... ...
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Jeff Tibb
jefftibb
Nov 9, 2004 1:47 am
Boy, I was more tired than I thought when I wrote that! Too many late nights scouring the skies for occultations. (I wish... Just too much work and a noisy...
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Darryl Thayer
daryl_solar
Nov 9, 2004 4:46 am
Hi Jeff and others. I saw the aurora here in central Minnesota. It was increadable, lots of color, reds and greens, the east west bands moving like waves was...
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Jeff Tibb
jefftibb
Nov 9, 2004 5:06 am
Darryl, I am jealous of your view! I once saw a show like the one you describe in Massachusetts, but it has been several years now. I don't believe that there...
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pygmando
Nov 9, 2004 12:32 pm
... Hi Jeff: you are thinking of kissing. It is inferred that in order to properly view a planet one must open ones eyes unless ones eyelids are transparent. ...
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bluematteo
Nov 9, 2004 2:28 pm
I'm jealous too of all you guys that get to see the aurora. Unfortunately in Maryland we're lucky if you can even find a constellation in the sky with all the...
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Jeff Tibb
jefftibb
Nov 9, 2004 2:29 pm
I'm going to 'get the business' for this note for weeks, aren't I! As much as I love the planets I wasn't actually thinking of kissing any of them, but had...
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Dave Adalian
lord_chiggy
Nov 9, 2004 9:19 pm
Typos aside, you missed one more naked-eye planet: Luna. The Earth and its moon are a dual planet system, so Luna can be included. It's pushing it, I know,...
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Rick M
starman_962
Nov 9, 2004 9:45 pm
Dave, Was going to say that earlier but i belive it is not in the same class as a planet though I do not know why seeing as it is bigger then the planet pluto....
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Jeff Tibb
jefftibb
Nov 9, 2004 10:00 pm
This whole issue of 'what is a planet' was once a closed discussion. Before 1995 we all KNEW what a planet was. There were nine of them and we knew all of ...
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y2kvid
Nov 13, 2004 1:19 am
I posted photos of the October 27, 2004 lunar eclipse I took with my two digital cameras on my web site at: ...
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Dave Adalian
lord_chiggy
Nov 13, 2004 2:37 am
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/...
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Math Heijen
orion94nl
Nov 14, 2004 10:47 am
Hi all, Last week there where two great conjunctions. The first was on November 5. Venus and Jupiter stood side by side in the western sky early in the...
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Darryl Thayer
daryl_solar
Nov 14, 2004 2:30 pm
Hi all I missed it, but I did see what I thought was a conjunction in the eastern sky in the morning. Darryl ... ...
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Rick M
starman_962
Nov 20, 2004 1:36 pm
Nice images y2k, they turned out very nice, thanks for sharing with us, good work. ===== Rick M http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AllAstronomyAllTheTime/ my...
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Hans-Göran Lindberg
limpan12000
Nov 20, 2004 8:21 pm
The snow have keeping me in-doors,no-observations, but i find some old comet images, and remember that it was fun to do some drawing of object using your eyes...
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pygmando
Nov 24, 2004 1:17 pm
Generation of light; Quantum photon effects The one puzzling feature about EM generation is how does the energy go from 0 to c in one wave length? Given...
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sylvia gillion
sylviagillion92
Nov 28, 2004 4:27 pm
Please help with describing the overall structure of the Milky Way Galaxy and specify how the various regions differ from one another. ... Do you Yahoo!? All...
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sylviagillion92
Nov 28, 2004 4:28 pm
can someone help me with describing the overall structure of the milky way galaxy and specify how the various regions differ from another....
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Jeff Tibb
jefftibb
Nov 28, 2004 6:30 pm
Is this a school assignment? ... Yahoo!...
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Haroldo Val de Lobo
cimarroneagle
Nov 28, 2004 8:45 pm
Hi! The Galaxy: "Gas and dust held together by gravity to form a disk galaxy some 30 kiloparsecs (1 Parsec = 3,26 ly) across surrounded by a halo of visible...
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Gregg
starryskyn
Nov 29, 2004 1:02 am
*Center of galaxy--a black hole with mass of several million suns. It is behind the constellation Sagittarius and its clouds of stars and thick gas and dust....
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Haroldo Val de Lobo
cimarroneagle
Nov 29, 2004 1:49 am
A seed works wonders, let's unveil Isis! Gregg <starryskyn@...> wrote: *Center of galaxy--a black hole with mass of several million suns. It is behind...
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Mark Watson
tealock2003
Nov 30, 2004 1:02 am
Sylvia, One of my favorite pages in seeing the overall structure of the Milky Way from our Earthly vantage point in space can be found at the following URL: ...
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Mark Watson
tealock2003
Nov 30, 2004 1:12 am
Sylvia, here is that last link again from that google search: http://tinyurl.com/4o8rn Good luck! Mark ... Milky ... it ... series ... ...
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sylviagillion92
Nov 30, 2004 8:36 am
Thank you for the information. I am in Astronomy at my college and we are now studing the Milky Way Galaxy. ... it ... gets. ... how ... act=ST&f=7&t=3263&hl=&...
