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5 planets to form rare alignment in the sky this weekend
NBC News ^ | June 3, 2022 | Denise Chow

Posted on 06/03/2022 2:00:22 PM PDT by American Number 181269513

Five planets will be visible in the predawn sky this weekend, offering an opportunity for sky watchers to see a rare alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with the naked eye.

Beginning Friday and lasting through this month, the five planets will appear strung across the eastern horizon before sunrise. The parade of planets will be aligned in order of their distance from the sun, with Mercury, closest to the star, appearing lowest on the horizon and Saturn highest in the night sky.

For the best views, sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere should head outside roughly 30 minutes before sunrise and choose a spot with unobstructed views of the eastern and southeastern horizon.

The same five planets are viewable before sunrise in the Southern Hemisphere, but stargazers there should stake out a location with unobstructed views of the eastern and northeastern horizon, instead.

If conditions are clear, the planets should be bright enough to see them with the naked eye, though Mercury will be faintest early in the month and thus trickiest to spot without binoculars.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alignment; astronomy; jupiter; mars; mercury; saturn; science; venus
Should be a nice sky show.
1 posted on 06/03/2022 2:00:22 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
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To: American Number 181269513

szygy!


2 posted on 06/03/2022 2:01:50 PM PDT by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: American Number 181269513

If I’m not reading a good Dale Brown book, I might drag the Tele Vue out.


3 posted on 06/03/2022 2:09:09 PM PDT by airdalechief
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To: American Number 181269513

5 planet alighment-——
.
This means something!
.
What,
in Heavens Name,
Could this be
A Sign Of???


4 posted on 06/03/2022 2:09:40 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: American Number 181269513
though Mercury will be faintest early in the month and thus trickiest to spot without binoculars.

Mercury is close to the sun, so to look at it with binoculars you have to look towards the sun with those binoculars.

This is not a safe suggestion to say the least.

5 posted on 06/03/2022 2:10:10 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: American Number 181269513

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius!


6 posted on 06/03/2022 2:11:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Big Red Badger

They are here!


7 posted on 06/03/2022 2:13:43 PM PDT by Leep (Don't say God.)
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To: qam1; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; Liz

Consider the required time (right before dawn through a minutes after dawn), the low angle of the sun, and the small 1/2 of one degree angle of the sun’s disk.

Small risk of passing the telescope through the sun’s disk. Present, but a small risk AR 39 atmospheres optical thickness.


8 posted on 06/03/2022 2:15:14 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: American Number 181269513

The Meaning of Numbers: The Number 5

The number 5 symbolizes God’s grace, goodness and favor toward humans. It is mentioned 318 times in Scripture. Five is the number of grace, and multiplied by itself, which is 25, is ‘grace upon grace’ (John 1:16). The Ten Commandments contains two sets of 5 commandments. The first five commandments are related to our treatment and relationship with God with the remaining one concerned with our relationship with others humans.

We have to be getting close to The Rapture of the Church for this big of a sign to be given.


9 posted on 06/03/2022 2:16:05 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Big Red Badger

“When the moon is in the 7th House-and Jupiter aligns with Mars”...

I never liked that song much, but I remember the words for some weird reason...


10 posted on 06/03/2022 2:19:34 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Salvavida

Maybe it is-certainly may be a reminder for the concerned us to be smacking down those causing all the insanity-but according to a couple of astronomy sites talking about it-it isn’t all that rare-last time it happened was in 2004-less than 20 years...


11 posted on 06/03/2022 2:28:35 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: qam1

I think they mean do it before sunrise when the sky is getting light. I’ve seen Venus with binoculars during the daytime but have never tried to see Mercury that way.


12 posted on 06/03/2022 2:33:51 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: American Number 181269513

I’ve been seeing three planets in the mornings recently. I don’t have an unobstructed view of the horizon, though.


13 posted on 06/03/2022 2:34:38 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: qam1

Mercury is the toughest of the naked eye planets (with the exception of Uranus which is just on the very edge of naked-eye visibility. Early morning right before sunrise or early evening right after sunset are the best times to try and catch it.

A transit of mercury across the sun is another way to see it, but the next one is in 2032.


14 posted on 06/03/2022 2:35:49 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Texan5

“but I remember the words for some weird reason...”

Probably cuz we heard it a few thousand times!!!


15 posted on 06/03/2022 2:43:22 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: lizma2

It seemed like at least a million...


16 posted on 06/03/2022 3:30:51 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: American Number 181269513

Does Uranus feel left out?


17 posted on 06/03/2022 4:05:23 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Leep

‘They’ might be
To Late!


18 posted on 06/03/2022 6:00:40 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: Texan5

‘Won’t get Fooled Again!’
.
Brit Bad Boys——Love’m !


19 posted on 06/03/2022 6:02:51 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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