Re: [Phys-L] Great Conjunction

[Anthony Lapinski <alapinski@pds.org>]

The C-8 is a great telescope! The newest ones are here:

www.celestron.com/collections/nexstar-se-computerized-telescopes

We have the 6SE. Great features! Hopefully skies will be clear that night.
I imagine there will be photos in magazines and online.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:55 PM bernard cleyet via Phys-l <
phys-l@mail.phys-l.org> wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> I must practice setting up my Celestron-8 well before.
>
>
> bc ... has suffered before by procrastinating.
>
> > On 2020/Nov/30, at 15:36, Anthony Lapinski <alapinski@pds.org> wrote:
> >
> > I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! I posted this at my school, and
> > thought I'd share it with the group. I'm getting my telescope ready!
> > Astronomy is FAR OUT!
> >
> > Mark your calendar! On December 21 Jupiter and Saturn will appear
> extremely
> > close in the sky and will look like a double planet! They will be
> separated
> > by only 0.1° - about 1/5 the diameter of the full Moon! It may be
> > challenging to distinguish them with unaided eyes for some people. In
> > reality the planets will be much farther apart - 4.8 times the distance
> > between the Sun and Earth. Jupiter-Saturn pairings/conjunctions are rare
> > (occur about every 20 years), but they have not been this close in the
> sky
> > since the Middle Ages (specifically, on March 4, 1226)!
>
> cut
>
>
> > http://www.space.com/jupiter-saturn-great-conjunction-2020
> >
> > Don't miss this rare, historical, remarkable, and spectacular event!
> >
> > P.S. You don't have to wait until the winter solstice to see Jupiter and
> > Saturn. They are visible all month. They appear 2° apart (4 moon
> diameters)
> > on December 1. Watch them slowly move closer together every night. On
> > December 16 they'll be just one Moon diameter (0.5°) apart.
> >
> > P.P.S. The next Great Conjunction is on Halloween, 2040, when these
> planets
> > will be 1° apart (two Moon diameters) before sunrise.
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