Astroblog: The Coming Conjunction

Thursday, August 25, 2005

The Coming Conjunction

In all the excitement over the aurora (which lasted on and off well into the morning, visible by moolight acording to some correspondents), I forgot to post this picture (click to enlarge, Spica may not come ut in the thumbnail). from top to bottom we have Spica, Jupiter and Venus (and our mandarin tree). Over the next week Jupiter and Venus will get closer, until they are around 1 degree apart on September 1. They will make a nice triangle with Spica

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Comments:

Thanks for being there, we were having a smoke outside in Canberra and noticed the conjunction and were amazed. We thought it was some of our sister planets. So I googled and you gave me the answer. Thanks.
Canberra (Rivett) 28/8 19:39

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