Comments on: Planetary Alignment Dazzles Weekend SkyWatchers

By: Abdur-Rehman

Abdur-Rehman — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:50:18 +0000

nice …..
i wish that i could study these astonomical studies in detal…….

By: Apocalyptic 2012

Apocalyptic 2012 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:08:27 +0000

The next big year for celestial viewing with is in 2012. There will be three eclipses in that single year. The Mayan calendar ends on 12/21/2012. The earth has made a full rotation around its elliptical rotation (26,000) years to do so. The last time this happened, we came out of the little ice age, and cromagden man died off, and man as we currently know it started to thrive and live in caves and started to make camp fires with sticks and stones. They say on 12/21/2012, the sun will rise directly aligned with the center of galaxy, and this will mark a time of extreme solar and earth whether, which intern will change life as we know it. They say life will not end, but will change dramatically as we currently know it. Some say it has already started. Nostradamus spoke about this, as did the Egyptians and Mayans.

By: Michael Parker

Michael Parker — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:41:05 +0000

Planetary alignments have been well noted throughout history of ancient civilizations to show significant meaning.

It is just a bummer that this alignment has had nothing to do with 250 earthquakes at Yellow Stone National park in the past three days….or has it?

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:21:56 +0000

All of the planets were aligned (or most of them anyways) in the 1980s. Remember the apocalyptic worries around that time! HUGE earthquakes and the earth and some moons knocked out of their orbits, lol.

By: KATHY

KATHY — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:04:28 +0000

WHEN WILL ALL OF THE PLANETS BE ALIGNED AT ONCE? 2012?

By: dallas

dallas — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:38:28 +0000

yeah toast

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:05:38 +0000

Beautiful

By: JR

JR — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:59:45 +0000

Thank you for sharing this.

By: zifferman

zifferman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:21:31 +0000

You can see Uranus under ideal dark conditions and if your eye sight is good enough.

Awaiting the usual juvenile jokes to go with the name of that planet.

By: Marco Fitzgerald

Marco Fitzgerald — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:06:17 +0000

no-clouds… forgive my english… sorry…

By: Marco Fitzgerald

Marco Fitzgerald — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:04:14 +0000

winter nights is no-shadows… clean sky…

By: Marco Fitzgerald

Marco Fitzgerald — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:02:18 +0000

from Bolivian sky looks amazing!!!

By: James

James — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:01:45 +0000

I see how it makes sense, looking at the numbers.

Mars is only .5 AU away from us, and has an equatorial radius of about .5 Earths.
On the other hand, Saturn is 8.5 AU away from us, with equatorial radius of about 9.5 Earths.
(If Wikipedia's stats are accurate.)

So they should be about the same size in the sky (Saturn maybe even a little bigger).

By: Vitor Martins

Vitor Martins — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:30:53 +0000

Greetings

I have been observing this alignment since last week (ok, pre-alignment ) with my FUJINON 16×70 binoculars. And yesterday, i point them to the moon (i just love the moon). Great contrast… Regarding seeing Saturn, well James, i must say that, just with the binoculars (i own a ETX125AT also) i can see Saturn more defined than Mars (again, with my binoculars) and "it's" ring (canÂ´t do Cassini division… , but that's ok… for now ). Mars, thru my binoculars, always looks like a red star… but of course… i'm doing it in the city

By: Mick

Mick — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:18:35 +0000

Wow great images, no clear sky's for me here in the Middle of the UK

By: greg c

greg c — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:52:16 +0000

james, it is amazing, isn't it? Saturn is just that enormous!

By: James

James — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:35:53 +0000

I find it hard to believe that we can see Saturn from Earth, since it's so far away. And that it still looks as big as Mars.
Shouldn't it be too small to see?
Also, does anyone know the most planets/celestial bodies ever photographed in alignment at a single time?

By: law mc

law mc — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:32:03 +0000

we really need higher res versions of these pics. They are really lovely and i want them as my desktop background.

By: byron

byron — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:25:07 +0000

That is a good image of it. Too smoggy/cloudy up here on the east coast to capture it.. been waiting nearly 2 months for clear skies