"Mike Collins" wrote in message
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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

Hi Thanks for your replies
I have run it through Cybersky4 and it does show the occultation starting at
21:44:11 and ending 21:53-20
both planets set at 22-04 so it would have looked hard to see.
I have been trying to find close ones with Jupiter and Saturn, the best I
have found was in the year -1792 1st May JD 1066651.1667 and 28th
December -0423 jd 1566919.1250 it looks like there will be a close
conjunction between these 2 0n 21st December 2020 ( it looks to be the
closest since 1623 July 16th
Paul