Astronomy Picture of the Day -- A Five Planet Dawn [see my preemptive comment]

NASA ^ | January 30, 2016 | (see photo credit)

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Explanation: As January closes and in the coming days of February, early morning risers can spot the five naked-eye planets before dawn. Though some might claim to see six planets, in this seaside panoramic view all five celestial wanderers were found above the horizon along with a bright waning gibbous Moon on January 27. Nearly aligned along the plane of the ecliptic, but not along a line with the Sun, the five planets are spread well over 100 degrees across the sky. Just arriving on the predawn scene, fleeting Mercury stands above the southeastern horizon in the golden light of the approaching sunrise.

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[Credit and Copyright: Jose Antonio Hervás]

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The Big One

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[Darksheare]

Pluto is supposedly below Mercury.

[Darksheare]

D’oh, forgot link.
http://www.spaceweather.com/images2016/27jan16/skymap_27jan16.png

[outofsalt]

Is Jupiter aligned with Mars? Is the moon in the seventh house?

[r_barton]

I looked up in the sky and saw this, but it didn’t have the names beside each planet. Something must be wrong with my view. ;-)

[outofsalt]

I guess this is not the dawning of the age of Aquarius after all... http://www.theplanetstoday.com/astrology.html

[SunkenCiv]

It has to do with diversity legislation — the heavens can’t be captioned in English.

[Darksheare]

Algol, the demon star.
Unluckiest star ever.
/ nerding out

[SunkenCiv]

;') Too bad the song was nonsense, but no one paid attention because of the nudity.

[SunkenCiv]

The Disney people need to host an astronomy page, come to think of it.

[Darksheare]

I can imagine how they’d “Disney it up” though.

[Vaquero]

Pluto then is almost 2 full AUs further away than 6 months from now.

[Vaquero]

Pluto is supposedly below Mercury.

And now we blast off for Pluto and The Moon

[arthurus]

Naked eye visible in the desert or on the ocean with clear skies. Around here, not so much- Venus usually, Mars and Jupiter sometimes.

[arthurus]

No one has seen Pluto with out a strong telescope.

[UCANSEE2]

By golly , you are right.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I looked up in the sky and saw this, but it didn't have the names beside each planet. Something must be wrong with my view. ;-)

That's really odd. Tell me...when it's a nice sunny day and you look skyward, do you see the large, high pressure "H" slowly moving across the sky? I do. If you don't then there is definitely something wrong with your view.

[huldah1776]

I remembered your post every time I was outside at night. Not in the morning. Useless where I’m at.