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Seven planets to be visible in night sky for last time until 2040
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| 02/25/2025
| Maddie Molloy
Posted on 02/25/2025 12:42:14 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Red Badger
The CIA and other Intelligence folks have Uranus covered.
To: Valpal1
A Grand Syzygy? Back in the day, that require Pluto, n'est ce pas?
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posted on
02/25/2025 2:24:25 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
To: BenLurkin
Really? Not till 2040? I guess I'll just take their word for it.
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posted on
02/25/2025 2:31:25 PM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Well who knows? Maybe it’ll be back next week.
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posted on
02/25/2025 2:33:24 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement What shtthoof fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Seaplaner
I think anything more than 4 is a Grand Syzygy
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posted on
02/25/2025 2:40:53 PM PST
by
Valpal1
(Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
To: BenLurkin
It’s not worth going out to look without Uranus.
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posted on
02/25/2025 4:01:54 PM PST
by
samkatz
To: BenLurkin
“You will need a telescope to spot the other two planets - Uranus and Neptune. “
There is an app for smart phones called planets that is very good at locating and naming planets visible or not.
To: Valpal1
I think anything more than 4 is a Grand Syzygy Ah, I think I got it, and excellent point.
Are we now, then, at a Venti Syzygy?
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posted on
02/25/2025 4:24:31 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
To: Seaplaner
A grand syzygy only required Pluto beginning in 1930. Before 1846, Neptune wasn’t required. Before 1781, Herschel’s new planet which he named Georgium Sidus (I think it’s called something else now) wasn’t required. Just the naked-eye planets.
To: politicket
"One will need a telescope to see Uranus." I wouldn't have it any other way.
To: Seaplaner
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posted on
02/25/2025 5:27:02 PM PST
by
Valpal1
(Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
To: BenLurkin
Four of the planets - Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars - will be visible to the naked eye. Saturn will be harder to see because it will be low in the horizon. You will need a telescope to spot the other two planets - Uranus and Neptune. The mean apparent magnitude of Uranus is 5.68 with a standard deviation of 0.17, while the extremes are 5.38 and 6.03.
A person with normal vision should thus be able to discern Uranus - provided that there is no light pollution and that, otherwise, seeing conditions are optimal.
Regards,
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posted on
02/26/2025 3:09:40 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: Red Badger
Only if you buy me dinner first.
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posted on
02/28/2025 8:53:03 AM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
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