The planets really will be in alignment for the next month Go buy a lottery ticket, dear readers, because for the next month the planets really will be in alignment. By an accident of celestial mechanics, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will all be visible from Earth for the next month and it will be just-about-possible to draw a straight line intersecting all five. …
Welsh people are ancient evil entities from a dimension beyond human understanding
Depends on where the humans are from. There was a Merkin couple eating in a restaurant in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch and arguing about how to pronounce the placename. To settle the issue, they called over the waitress and asked her. She said, ever so slowly, "Bur-ger-King".
I was scratching my melon for a bit over the diagram... Looking NorthEast??? Rising right to left??? Then I read on ... blah blah Australian blah blah... oh, okay. Got that. Moving on. HEADLINE NEWS: PLANETS APPEAR MORE OR LESS LINED UP ON THE ECLIPTIC!!! errr... yeah, generally they would wouldn't they? Ho hum.
"HEADLINE NEWS: PLANETS APPEAR MORE OR LESS LINED UP ON THE ECLIPTIC!!! errr... yeah, generally they would wouldn't they?"
Yeah, me is confused over this too. Not being an astronomer, I was under the impression form previous "astronomical event" type headlines that planetary alignments of note were when they line up in a radial line from the sun so from our point of view are " behind" each other.
"Jupiter's gone into Orion, and come into conjunction with Mars,
Saturn is wheeling across infinite space to its preordained place in the stars,
And I gaze at the planets in wonder, at the trouble and time they expend,
All to warn me to be careful, in dealings involving a friend"
My Horoscope - Michael Flanders
""Jupiter's gone into Orion, and come into conjunction with Mars,
Saturn is wheeling across infinite space to its preordained place in the stars,
And I gaze at the planets in wonder, at the trouble and time they expend,
All to warn me to be careful, in dealings involving a friend"
so in short, you may want to take an umbrella with you tomorrow. Summary- Rain of Fire.
"That's the Milky Way. It really does look like that, but you need good eyes and a very dark sky. A camera which can handle long exposures helps too."
You actually don't need good eyes at all, but you do need a very dark sky, so you won't see it from any town or city. I'm a keen astronomer and I've never seen it :(
I had a backpacking trip to South America a few years back, various countries, lots of highlights, and also included a few days up in the Atacama Desert.
I'm not one for emotional outbursts (my gf reckons I'm a Vulcan), but the night sky views really did take my breath away (the lack of oxygen up their not withstanding).
If you really enjoy your star gazing, that's the place to visit!
You could on the old, slow Channel ferries on the night run. Especially if you could get the purser to Ignore you and got up to the roof.
Then you hit the problem of not being able to pick out the constellations because there were too damn many stars... ( yes, luxury problem, I know... :P )
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