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Night Sky Query
Another stinkin vanity from Cletus | Star Date 2799.33 | Duh...

Posted on 01/30/2011 12:40:30 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel

Okay, you FR sky watchers, what is the very bright planet I see each morning as I make my way into the city of Chicago? It is in the SE sky. Just asking and yes, I've checked Uranus...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: brightplanet; earth; jupiter; mars; mercury; neptune; nightsky; pluto; saturn; uranus; vanity; venus
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Just looking for some info and waiting on the flames...
1 posted on 01/30/2011 12:40:34 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I’ve been noticing the same planet for the last month or so...I think it is Jupiter, but could definitely be mistaken.

It has been known to happen...


2 posted on 01/30/2011 12:41:53 PM PST by HiJinx (What new decade?)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Venus


3 posted on 01/30/2011 12:42:02 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I’m guessing Venus.

Skyandtelescope.com has a good interactive sky chart.


4 posted on 01/30/2011 12:42:44 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

since we haven’t seen it in awhile, it’s probably the sun.


5 posted on 01/30/2011 12:42:46 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Rahm’s ego?


6 posted on 01/30/2011 12:43:25 PM PST by keat
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Venus, Jupiter is the evening planet that messes around with the moon.


7 posted on 01/30/2011 12:45:53 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Is this what you are seeing?


8 posted on 01/30/2011 12:46:33 PM PST by PGR88
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Yup, I were wrong. It’s Venus.

Linky-thingy: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance


9 posted on 01/30/2011 12:46:38 PM PST by HiJinx (What new decade?)
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If it’s very low on the horizon it is probably Venus. If it appears to be about 35 degrees up in the ESE it is probably Saturn


10 posted on 01/30/2011 12:46:44 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
It's probably the first planet you see in the evening as well. Venus.
11 posted on 01/30/2011 12:48:06 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Let me guess, Sunday afternoon, no football, you’re lonely and want someone to talk to...........Get a damn cat or somethin’..........Or a goldfish, if it dies you don’t have to bury it. Just flush it down the toilet


12 posted on 01/30/2011 12:49:54 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only thing Super Glue is good for is gluing your fingers together.....)
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You’re probably seeing Venus in the morning, and for the past few months Jupiter has been especially brilliant in the evenings.

Keep an eye on Orion in case Betelgeuse finally decides to let loose....


13 posted on 01/30/2011 12:51:03 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Actually, I’m “home officing”. Our EHS manager died on the floor during a meeting about 12 days ago. Since I can run about 3 PC’s while I’m working from home, I thought a quick question to the combined knowledge of FR would be okay.

Instead...I get your pissy response. Hey, have a nice week.


14 posted on 01/30/2011 12:53:48 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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To: Bean Counter; Cletus.D.Yokel
Betelgeuse

"Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY TIME!"

15 posted on 01/30/2011 12:55:08 PM PST by freedumb2003 (The TOTUS-reader is a Judas Goat, leading the American sheeple to the slaugherhouse /Parmy)
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To: freedumb2003

I’m renting that one real soon!

And, I’m keeping tabs on the “nova risk” of that star..sometime between now and...what?..1E+06 years. Ain’t holding my breath.


16 posted on 01/30/2011 12:58:01 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Get yourself a Droid phone and download the “Google Sky” app. Launch the app, point the back of the phone to the star/planet in question and you will see the name.

That is how I do it!


17 posted on 01/30/2011 1:00:32 PM PST by fuzzybutt (Democrat Lawyers are the root of all evil.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yourtel?lat=0.4264&ns=North&lon=218.569&fov=45&z=1


18 posted on 01/30/2011 1:01:47 PM PST by smokingfrog ( BORN free - taxed to DEATH (and beyond) ...)
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Instead...I get your pissy response.

Hey, you expected it.........now come on, admit it, you really wanted it.

19 posted on 01/30/2011 1:09:18 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only thing Super Glue is good for is gluing your fingers together.....)
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To: fuzzybutt

Really???

Wow, I have a Droid and I am downloading that app NOW!


20 posted on 01/30/2011 1:10:47 PM PST by freedumb2003 (The TOTUS-reader is a Judas Goat, leading the American sheeple to the slaugherhouse /Parmy)
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