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Venus in the evening
Just picked out Venus during bright evening twilight at about 7:15pm=20
local time. I was using my 10x32 Leica binoculars. Over the next few=20 months Venus will be slowing pulling away from the sun and moving=20 southward. Also on the evening of June 25th Venus, Mercury and Saturn=20 will all be within 2=B0 of each other! -Florian Palm Springs, Calif. |
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Congrats!
Clear Skies Chuck Taylor Do you observe the moon? Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/ Are you interested in understanding optics? Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ATM_Optics_Software/ To reply, remove Delete and change period com to period net ************************************************** ************ "Florian" wrote in message ... Just picked out Venus during bright evening twilight at about 7:15pm local time. I was using my 10x32 Leica binoculars. Over the next few months Venus will be slowing pulling away from the sun and moving southward. Also on the evening of June 25th Venus, Mercury and Saturn will all be within 2° of each other! -Florian Palm Springs, Calif. |
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I concur, very nice. As for me, I am dullard enought not to be able to
pick out Mercury yet. BTW, very nice skies you have in Palm Springs. Erik socalsw |
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"Florian" wrote in message ... Just picked out Venus during bright evening twilight at about 7:15pm local time. I was using my 10x32 Leica binoculars. Over the next few months Venus will be slowing pulling away from the sun and moving southward. Also on the evening of June 25th Venus, Mercury and Saturn will all be within 2° of each other! -Florian Palm Springs, Calif. The last time I saw Venus was in December, 2004. It was around noon and, although there were clouds, I pinpointed it with my scope's finderscope. Then I took a look at it through the C8 with a #47 violet filter. I couldn't believe how small it had become and was even fooled into thinking it was Mars for a while. However, I knew that Mars wouldn't show up at that time of day. Clay |
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Nice one! Been watching Venus on Soho widefield in last few months - still a Venus 'spike' on today's frame [May 4th] LH side.
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