Is Anyone Else Seeing The Sky Tonight?

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to my southwest in Kansas is a quarter moon illuminating what I guess to be two planets...

stars are just coming out, and my camera shows the lower of the two as red...

kinda cool.

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[+3] - squinney - 12/01/2008Just drove back from Virginia. We all noticed it and watched it all the way home. Venus and Jupiter? I thought it might be Aunt Natalie meeting Noddy, so I howled.

too cloudy here, but i see them other nights, my guess would be venus and mars, they are the closest and brightest, and usually seen together

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@Rockhead,

After hearing about this event last week hearing that 2 planets will be the closest in many years. It might be Jupiter and venus. If I spot the correct info I'll post it. When I see them, they're almost in a straight line right over one another either above or below the crescent moon.

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just looked it up on space.com, it's jupiter and venus, jupiter on top, venus on the bottom

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http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/081121-venus-moon-02.jpg

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@djjd62,

they are in a triangle with the little moon at point here right now.

angle will vary this a lot, i think.

(I wish Izzie was here, my camera won't catch it...)

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@djjd62,

thanks, dj.

It is much more pronounced than that out here on the prairie...

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@Ragman,

You are correct about Venus and Jupiter.

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@Intrepid,

Thanks, Intrepid!

I also found the info in Sky and Telescope: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/

In the Americas, it's in the sky at dusk...in the southwest portion of the sky.
Nov 29-dec 1st. For other locations..see the link I posted.

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Just drove back from Virginia. We all noticed it and watched it all the way home.

Venus and Jupiter? I thought it might be Aunt Natalie meeting Noddy, so I howled.

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We're not seeing anything but pea soup fog here in Sacramento. I can barely make out the cars in the parking lot much less anything in the sky.

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The cloud curtain's up and it's snowing in Ohio.
No can see!
Darn~!

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@Rockhead,

apparently it was visible from the bahstin 'burbs last night...

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Definitely Jupiter and Venus, both of which set around 7:30 P.M. NYC area. Mars set at approximately 4:30 P.M.

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http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/2469/n8215220739909032045bs0.jpg

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@Robert Gentel,

now that is interesting...

from here, I got a waning moon, with the planets reversed from that view.

(is that a satellite photo?)

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@Rockhead,

Nah, it's from the ground (dunno where, found it on the net without context).

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@Rockhead,

Yeah, that just doesn't look right. Looks like the camera were held on end, cuz I've never seen the crescent cupped either up or down.

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@Rockhead,

it was incredible last nite Rock .... we saw just a slither of the underside of the moon and venus (having seen the above) which was SO bright... (white tho)..... little fella and I stared for ages on the way back home in the car - but the clouds took over when we arrived here. Tonite.... rain, hail...

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