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November 28th 09, 09:05 PM
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Planets occulting other Planets
On 28 Nov, 17:38, David Entwistle wrote:
In message , Paul Forsdick writes 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 -- 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 
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