re: Update: tonight Christmas Star’ to light up night sky for first time in 800 years

You can all view Uranus anytime via a mirror. Just saying.

That is neat

This is really cool.

Of course it’s 2020 so it will probably create 100 years of darkness and thousands of giant nocturnal praying mantises will scour the earth.

It will probably be cloudy

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You’d have to go all the way back to just before dawn on March 4, 1226, to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky.”

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Lemme ask genghis khan what he thought of it

I've already got my telescope ready. With the right eyepieces I should be able to see both of them in the scope at the same time (along with 4 of Jupiter's moons and 2 of Saturn's.)




Unfortunately for most people, they'll be very low on the horizon and you'll have to get out right at sunset to see them at convergence.

To plan things out for your neck of the woods, check out https://stellarium-web.org/

Thx

I just went look and it’s very obvious in the SW sky

I see maybe a slightly brighter star to the south? Hard to tell.

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You’d have to go all the way back to just before dawn on March 4, 1226, to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky.”

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LCA, can you let us know how this time compares to last?

Thanks