Posted on 04/03/2020 5:09:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Venus and Earth are in what's a called a near resonance. As a result, Earth and Venus return to nearly the same positions in their orbits at eight-year intervals, which is why we get an event like this Friday's infrequently.
Venus visits the Pleiades' neighbourhood often, but it's only once every eight years that the planet strolls right through the cluster. Since the orbital paths of Venus and Earth are elliptical and not perfect circles, this resonance effect is imprecise.
In addition, Venus's orbit is tilted with respect to Earth's path around the Sun by 3.4 degrees, which results in slightly different albeit similar passages every eight years.
Venus currently blazes at magnitude -4.6 so you can't miss it Looking toward the sunset direction and halfway up the western sky during evening twilight, and the brightest object will be the planet. As the sky darkens, more and more Pleiades cluster members will start appearing.
People can see them without optical aid, but binoculars will greatly enhance the view. Those who have access to a small telescope with a wide-field eyepiece should see Venus as a tiny, fat illuminated crescent.
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Venus has been extremely bright this week.
Where’s Uranus ?
Just curious, given that the earth and venus move on almost the same orbit which elliptical...do you suppose the climate on earth is affected by how close or how far the earth is from the sun....
And the Japanese word for Pliedes is Subaru.
Hence their emblem.
Venus will meet Pleiades star cluster.
She will say “I’m your Venus. I’m your pride and joy.”
IST? Is that the same as GMT?
Thanks for posting. Just added to my calendar with a reminder alert.
Nope...no connection whatsoever. Evil Orange Man is solely to blame for our unfolding climate catastrophe!
When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter allies with Mars, then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars.
Burning like a silver flame
A summit of beauty and love
It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius...
but that was a month ago....
We are now in Aries...
Where’s Uranus ?
OMG, a black hole!
This is highly offensive! The authors should have written something more like
Those who have access to a small telescope with a wide-field eyepiece should see Venus as a tiny, weight enhanced illuminated crescent.
Did you see recently, last week or so, that Uranus is expelling gas?
As for Venus and the Seven Sisters, “Mostly Cloudy” according to the NWS.
Well, the Earth is 93 million miles from the Sun and Venus is only 67 million miles.
Since the Sun is an enormous ball of fusing hydrogen that gives off an amazing amount of light and heat and other energies, I’d say being 26 million miles closer to the “furnace” makes things a lot hotter on Venus,
Don, Don Lemon is that you?
That’s obviously true, I was trying to be sarcastic....but the earth’s orbit is not a perfect circle or ellipse...so when it’s closer to the sun it will be hotter here and vice versa
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