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Old November 28th 09, 09:05 PM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
Mike Collins[_3_]
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Default Planets occulting other Planets

On 28 Nov, 17:38, David Entwistle wrote:
In message , Paul Forsdick
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does anybody know if these were seen and if my dates are correct
The next 3 seem to be Mercury Saturn on 15 September 2037 at about 22h ,
Venus Jupiter on 22 November 2065 in daylight at about 13h and Mercury Mars
11 August 2079 at about 02h


Hi Paul

It appears that John Bevis witnessed Venus occulting Mercury from the
Royal Greenwich Observatory on May 28, 1737, at about 21:40 UT.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986S%26T....72..220S

http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/planets/1737occl.htm
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David Entwistle


I just ran a simulation of this on Stellarium. I don't know how
accurate Stellarium is but it showed as a grazing occultation but at
only 1 degree elevation