I looked out the window this morning and saw the planetary pair just peeking over the top of a mountain, with a foreboding gray storm cloud hovering just above them. The sight was extraordinary! By the time I put on a shirt and grabbed the camera, the cloud - http://imgur.com/DGQlAkq - had encompassed them and remained there until well after sunrise. Jared On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
I had to wait for the clouds to part, but did get a look at the conjunction in my binocular. I understand this is the closest planetary conjunction since 2006. Very nice pairing in the bino, almost as close as the apparent diameter of the moon.
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
Also for tomorrow morning, Jupiter and Venus really close together. Here from NASA:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/15aug_conjunction/
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