for planet watchers: jupiter and saturn get uber cozy

[butters]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/worl...KuKIU/oBfQXOg3F7FrrrY+eY8&bt_ts=1607081182391

not appeared this close in the sky since 1226, and will do so again in 2080 then not till 2400

 

[spacekowboy]

Who doesn't like staring at a couple of giant globes squeezed together?

 

[juttjaw]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/worl...KuKIU/oBfQXOg3F7FrrrY+eY8&bt_ts=1607081182391

not appeared this close in the sky since 1226, and will do so again in 2080 then not till 2400

I've been waiting on this, for some months now. I hope we have a nice, crisp, clear black night. It's not a very long trip to get completely out of the city lights. I doubt I'll drag out the portable Orion that is laying comfortably in its tomb of shit yet to be unpacked. But we will dig out the binoculars.

 

[TheWorldBuilder]

I've been waiting on this, for some months now. I hope we have a nice, crisp, clear black night. It's not a very long trip to get completely out of the city lights. I doubt I'll drag out the portable Orion that is laying comfortably in its tomb of shit yet to be unpacked. But we will dig out the binoculars.

Unfortunately the bins will only grasp Jove's big four and Titan. Make the effort to get the Orion out and enjoy the sight of 13 satellites, including Rhea, Dione, Enceladus and Tethys, in the field of view simultaneously.

 

[juttjaw]

Unfortunately the bins will only grasp Jove's big four and Titan. Make the effort to get the Orion out and enjoy the sight of 13 satellites, including Rhea, Dione, Enceladus and Tethys, in the field of view simultaneously.

Ok, that convinced me. I'll dig it out and recalibrate the laser, make sure the dust is gone and go through the eye pieces. I forget what a wonderful telescope it is.

 

[domroger]

Where I live it's been rainy ,foggy ,misty or overcast ,so I have had no fucking chance of seeing it .

 

[islandman]

I'll wait until 2080. Should be less pollution in the atmo by then.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Even right now they are close, they don't quite yet fit into my field of vision in the Evo, but it is such a short hop....