Spectacular Sky Show: Venus, Jupiter and the Moon

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	Spectacular Sky Show: Venus, Jupiter and the Moon

dorine

1-26-2008 7:16 AM

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Can't wait for this one!!!!!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/db71386d-315b-4aef-8780-05b73bd544c9/0B79E6A9-E808-413E-AEF3-EC33B595F7E6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.yahoo.com/" href="http://www.yahoo.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.yahoo.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.yahoo.com/img/8653BF6A-C7C2-40E7-B6CF-0A2F0A6284B3" alt="Planets across the solar system (Getty Images)" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080125/sc_space/spectacularskyshowvenusjupiterandthemoon" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080125/sc_space/spectacularskyshowvenusjupiterandthemoon" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080125/sc_space/spectacularskyshowvenusjupiterandthemoon"><P>
                        The most spectacular celestial sights over the next couple
of weeks are reserved for the early morning sky. Two bright planets will
converge, then be joined by the moon.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080125/sc_space/spectacularskyshowvenusjupiterandthemoon">Such an eloquent description certainly fits our current
morning sky, for these final days of January and the first days of February will
be an exceptional time for <SPAN id="lw_1201272426_1" class="yshortcuts">predawn sky watchers</SPAN> with a beautiful pairing of the
two brightest planets, <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/spectacularskyshowvenusjupiterandthemoon/26060170/SIG=12inuovlb/*http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=3861&gid=280"><SPAN id="lw_1201272426_2" class="yshortcuts">Venus</SPAN></A>
and <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/spectacularskyshowvenusjupiterandthemoon/26060170/SIG=12qf8109d/*http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=4654&gid=332&index=0"><SPAN id="lw_1201272426_3" class="yshortcuts">Jupiter</SPAN></A>.
They will appear closest together in the dawn sky of <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/spectacularskyshowvenusjupiterandthemoon/26060170/SIG=17fq1njfk/*http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=080125-ns-moon-planets-02.jpg&cap=Before+sunrise+on+February+1%2C+Venus+and+Jupiter+will+appear+low+in+the+southeastern+sky%2C+as+seen+from+midnorthern+latitudes.%0D%0A"><SPAN id="lw_1201272426_4" class="yshortcuts">Friday, Feb. 1</SPAN></A>, and a few
mornings later, the <SPAN id="lw_1201272426_5" class="yshortcuts">waning crescent moon</SPAN> will later drop by to join them.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080125/sc_space/spectacularskyshowvenusjupiterandthemoon"><B>Dazzling "double planet"</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080125/sc_space/spectacularskyshowvenusjupiterandthemoon"><P>For the past several months, dazzling Venus has been prominent
in our morning sky. And about a week ago, brilliant Jupiter also began to emerge
from out of the glare of the Sun.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080125/sc_space/spectacularskyshowvenusjupiterandthemoon">From now through the end of January, the gap between the two
will noticeably close, until on Feb. 1 they'll be separated by just over
one-half degree, </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0B79E6A9-E808-413E-AEF3-EC33B595F7E6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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