First month of lockdown, March/April 2020, I was isolating in a tent, at my elderly parents garden/field. Had my astro binoculars and tripod. Freezing nights, but clear skies. Venus was a perfect crescent, so beautiful...
"One fuzzy blob after another". Not any longer with Electronically Assisted Astronomy (EAA). An article on that would be wonderful from your team! Game changer, as they say.
I love those graphics of the dawn I wish I could get up to see Venus but I'm too lazy!To be honest I won't be too bothered about Jupiter and Saturn 🪐 being so close to the Sun as they have dominated the autumn/early winter skies.I'm riding the overnight sleeping train from London to Carlisle soon ,ETA Carlisle 0518,so I'll have an enforced crack at Venus then but it's gone cloudy.With the Messier Marathon those one's at the bottom of Scorpius and Sagittarius wouldn't be possible from northern England as I don't think that I ever saw M6/7 when I lived down in Oxford!
Did anyone see a trail of fast moving stars early this morning? ( Northwest England, 5.15am, 20th March 2022 ) The best way to describe it would be like the width of a railway line ( from where I was ) with a long cluster of stars within these two imaginary, perfectly straight and parallel lines, about the length of an average plane trail. They were clearly stars, traveling at 2, 3 times faster than a plane ( and in space ) it was a full moon at the time and clear to see. I think they were travelling from a north eastly direction to a south westerly way. It was amazing and I've checked news sites and I can't be the only one who saw it? There must be satellite pictures and astronomers out there who saw it?
As an American I have to take into account that your latitude is about 6 degrees higher than mine, even though I'm in the northern part of the contiguous states.
At the time 3:16 in this video, how is it possible that Venus can be viewed in the night sky next to Mars when Venus is supposed to be orbiting as the 2nd planet from the sun? Does this mean that Venus MOVED ITS ORBIT? If Venus is able to be seen in the night sky then that means it moved its orbit, otherwise we would not be able to sense Venus because we would have to look in the direction of the sun to see it. But Venus CAN BE SEEN IN THE NIGHT SKY, so this means that the model of the solar system we were taught in school is false. Venus does not have a set orbit as the 2nd planet from the sun.
