Five planets visible last night

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Five planets visible last night

Post by ZaphodBurner » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:09 pm

Last night at Rooster Rock in the Columbia River Gorge, meteor shower viewers also got to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn together in the same sky.

Cool.

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Post by Fire_Moose » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:59 pm

Arn't all the planets in the same sky?
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Post by ZaphodBurner » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:24 pm

Fire_Moose wrote:Arn't all the planets in the same sky?
Yeah, but, they're not always visible together.

Sort of like the Beatles, or Black Sabbath. It's better to see them all together.

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Post by Dr. Pyro » Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:01 pm

Technically there were six visable. Had you looked down you would have seen Earth.

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Post by ZaphodBurner » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:30 pm

Dr. Pyro wrote:Technically there were six visable. Had you looked down you would have seen Earth.
Yeah, but, then I wouldn't have been looking at the sky, unless I saw the reflection in the Columbia River or something.

Now, that would have been cool.
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