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As was pointed out on Friday at our society meeting in Milton Keynes,
there are goings-on in the Southwest at twilight and just before dark. Venus, Mercury and Uranus are close together. Last night (3 Feb), Mercury and Uranus were equidistant from Venus, Mercury being lowest and Uranus highest. Mercury and Venus were visible to the naked-eyeand in twilight but Uranus required binoculars (7x50)and I had to wait for the twilight to subdue to spot it. Uranus looked quite bright at mag +6.1 but then the sky conditions were exceptional. Tonight (4 Feb), the distance between Venus and Mercury had almost doubled and Venus was a little bit closer to Uranus. The horizon was hazy and I struggled to find Uranus in binoculars as there were some slow moving bands of haze in the area. I finally fixed it with a bit of patience. I feel that the conjunction between Venus and Uranus is watchable with a clear horizon but it depends now on the weather on the 7th. Pierre MK-UK |
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On Feb 4, 9:03 pm, "Pierre" wrote:
As was pointed out on Friday at our society meeting in Milton Keynes, there are goings-on in the Southwest at twilight and just before dark. Venus, Mercury and Uranus are close together. Last night (3 Feb), Mercury and Uranus were equidistant from Venus, Mercury being lowest and Uranus highest. Mercury and Venus were visible to the naked-eyeand in twilight but Uranus required binoculars (7x50)and I had to wait for the twilight to subdue to spot it. Uranus looked quite bright at mag +6.1 but then the sky conditions were exceptional. Tonight (4 Feb), the distance between Venus and Mercury had almost doubled and Venus was a little bit closer to Uranus. The horizon was hazy and I struggled to find Uranus in binoculars as there were some slow moving bands of haze in the area. I finally fixed it with a bit of patience. I feel that the conjunction between Venus and Uranus is watchable with a clear horizon but it depends now on the weather on the 7th. Pierre MK-UK These are all geocentric luxuries making no attempt to distinguish the inner Venus and Mercury from the outer orbital path of Uranus. Western society has little feel for astronomy and the motions of the Earth and especially in relevent areas such as climatology.Standing between the magnificent and powerful modern imaging and its productive and appreciate applications are you and your celestial sphere colleagues.. Poor people always pay for the excesses of pretensious people,in this case the careless efforts of late 17th century guys who vandalised so much for so little returns.That most people actually do try to consider the incredible and rapid change in climate and recognise certain actions must be taken is remarkable insofar as they have nothing to go on from an astronomical appreciation or rather they are still chained to the seasonal explanation through the pseudo-dynamic of a variable tilting Earth which keeps everything pinned to celestial sphere geometry. So what of your conjunctions or your transits ?,you could easily render these things into heliocentric considerations with a little effort and that is the unfortunate part. |
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On 5 Feb, 16:12, "oriel36" wrote:
On Feb 4, 9:03 pm, "Pierre" wrote: As was pointed out on Friday at our society meeting in Milton Keynes, there are goings-on in the Southwest at twilight and just before dark. Venus, Mercury and Uranus are close together. Last night (3 Feb), Mercury and Uranus were equidistant from Venus, Mercury being lowest and Uranus highest. Mercury and Venus were visible to the naked-eyeand in twilight but Uranus required binoculars (7x50)and I had to wait for the twilight to subdue to spot it. Uranus looked quite bright at mag +6.1 but then the sky conditions were exceptional. Tonight (4 Feb), the distance between Venus and Mercury had almost doubled and Venus was a little bit closer to Uranus. The horizon was hazy and I struggled to find Uranus in binoculars as there were some slow moving bands of haze in the area. I finally fixed it with a bit of patience. I feel that the conjunction between Venus and Uranus is watchable with a clear horizon but it depends now on the weather on the 7th. Pierre MK-UK These are all geocentric luxuries making no attempt to distinguish the inner Venus and Mercury from the outer orbital path of Uranus. Western society has little feel for astronomy and the motions of the Earth and especially in relevent areas such as climatology.Standing between the magnificent and powerful modern imaging and its productive and appreciate applications are you and your celestial sphere colleagues.. Poor people always pay for the excesses of pretensious people,in this case the careless efforts of late 17th century guys who vandalised so much for so little returns.That most people actually do try to consider the incredible and rapid change in climate and recognise certain actions must be taken is remarkable insofar as they have nothing to go on from an astronomical appreciation or rather they are still chained to the seasonal explanation through the pseudo-dynamic of a variable tilting Earth which keeps everything pinned to celestial sphere geometry. So what of your conjunctions or your transits ?,you could easily render these things into heliocentric considerations with a little effort and that is the unfortunate part.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hey, troll, this is only an observation. I'm going to argue against the meanderings of your twisted mind. Just back off and stay out of my thread |
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On Feb 5, 6:55 pm, "Pierre" wrote:
On 5 Feb, 16:12, "oriel36" wrote: On Feb 4, 9:03 pm, "Pierre" wrote: As was pointed out on Friday at our society meeting in Milton Keynes, there are goings-on in the Southwest at twilight and just before dark. Venus, Mercury and Uranus are close together. Last night (3 Feb), Mercury and Uranus were equidistant from Venus, Mercury being lowest and Uranus highest. Mercury and Venus were visible to the naked-eyeand in twilight but Uranus required binoculars (7x50)and I had to wait for the twilight to subdue to spot it. Uranus looked quite bright at mag +6.1 but then the sky conditions were exceptional. Tonight (4 Feb), the distance between Venus and Mercury had almost doubled and Venus was a little bit closer to Uranus. The horizon was hazy and I struggled to find Uranus in binoculars as there were some slow moving bands of haze in the area. I finally fixed it with a bit of patience. I feel that the conjunction between Venus and Uranus is watchable with a clear horizon but it depends now on the weather on the 7th. Pierre MK-UK These are all geocentric luxuries making no attempt to distinguish the inner Venus and Mercury from the outer orbital path of Uranus. Western society has little feel for astronomy and the motions of the Earth and especially in relevent areas such as climatology.Standing between the magnificent and powerful modern imaging and its productive and appreciate applications are you and your celestial sphere colleagues.. Poor people always pay for the excesses of pretensious people,in this case the careless efforts of late 17th century guys who vandalised so much for so little returns.That most people actually do try to consider the incredible and rapid change in climate and recognise certain actions must be taken is remarkable insofar as they have nothing to go on from an astronomical appreciation or rather they are still chained to the seasonal explanation through the pseudo-dynamic of a variable tilting Earth which keeps everything pinned to celestial sphere geometry. So what of your conjunctions or your transits ?,you could easily render these things into heliocentric considerations with a little effort and that is the unfortunate part.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hey, troll, this is only an observation. I'm going to argue against the meanderings of your twisted mind. Just back off and stay out of my thread- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - It is a public forum so put forward a geocentric observation in respect to the planets and wrapped up in celestial sphere geometry and I expect a heliocentric equivalent explanation. You have no intutive sense for the Earth's motions hence your feebleminded adherence to 'conjunctions' without any real astronomical qualification. |
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