The Evening Star Greets the Ringed Planet


	The Evening Star Greets the Ringed Planet

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6-30-2007 12:29 PM

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<IMG width="341" height="405" border="0" title="Looking west in twilight" alt="Looking west in twilight" src="http://media.skytonight.com/images/Vic07June30.jpg" />		<DIV class="caption">Don't miss the Venus-Saturn conjunction on June 30th and July 1st! </DIV>		<DIV class="caption"><I>Sky & Telescope diagram</I></DIV>		</DIV></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://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/8203647.html">It's always a treat to view a planet through a telescope. The pleasure is far greater on the rare occasions when <I>two</I> planets fit side by side in a single telescopic field of view.</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://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/8203647.html"><P>
On Saturday and Sunday evenings, June 30th and July 1st, for observers all around the world, Venus and Saturn will be within 50' of each other. That means that they will fit together comfortably in the field of view of most telescopes at 50x — ample magnification to show both Saturn's magnificent rings and Venus's crescent phase. </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://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/8203647.html"><P>
The very closest approach (just under 40') occurs at 9:34 Universal Time on July 1st, and is viewable only over the Pacific Ocean. For observers in North America, the planets are slightly closer to each other on Saturday than on Sunday. But Venus and Saturn make a spectacular pair even on Friday and Monday evenings, just a little more than 1° apart. </P></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/BD32C5EE-746B-40F9-A217-FA46FCFC2BED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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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