Saturday, January 26, 2008

Close Encounters

Friends,

If you have an imagination :-), you can see two dots up at the top of the above picture taken a few years ago. This is the last time that the planets Venus and Jupiter appeared close together in the night sky. If you get out your binoculars or small telescope, you will be able to see this same celestial event again the first of February, only a whole lot bigger than the above pic. Having the two brightest planets in the sky plus the four largest of Jupiter's moons all in your field of vision is a nice sight. So, give it a look in a week or so and enjoy!

Don

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