Saturn, Mars, and

[bluekazoo]

two falling stars!

Tonight Saturn was in clear view to the south ... Mars bright to the east ... and I saw two meteors as I walked out my front door just now (to the north) ...

Autumn evenings are the best - clear skies ... anybody taking any pictures?

[bluekazoo]

Just did a little nosing around ... microbes has terrific pics of Saturn and Mars at his site (my activation number doesn't work there, or I'd tell him so at his board) ...

microbes, if you're reading this, I really enjoy reading the stuff you put up, I just can't post there to tell you so ...

[microbes]

terrific pics of Saturn and Mars at his site

I don't know that they are real terrific, I've seen better from people with expensive equipment, but considering I take them with a Sony Mavica ...

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/346/mars11064gb.jpg

http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/4918/sat29b4jb.jpg

(saturn will be better placed in another month or so for taking pictures, mars is about as good as it gets, it won't be this close again until 2018)

my activation number doesn't work there, or I'd tell him so at his board

I reset your account, try it again.


Tonight Saturn was in clear view to the south ... Mars bright to the east

Hmmm... The south??? Where are you located at? Saturn rises about the same place mars does (maybe just a tad north of where mars rises) and you won't see it at all until about 1:30 or 2:00 am, and even then it is very low in the east. (actually all the planets, the sun, and the moon rise and set in about the same places give or take a few degrees). Are you sure you were looking at saturn? It is below Gemini in the east when it rises.

Mars is in the east in the early evening, by midnight it is very high (and maybe just a little to the south depending on your location) and moving into the west.

[TerrorEd]

Nice pics, very cool. :1clap5:

Ed.

[bluekazoo]

Okay, microbes has been kind enough to straighten this out for me ... what I thought was Saturn was really Venus, and now I'm on a quest to spot Saturn, but it'll have to be on the weekend, when I can stay up late enough ... at least now I know the right place to look, heh ...

[microbes]

Saturn is better placed for viewing right now, it is fairly high in the sky by 10:30 pm and about as high as it is going to be by midnight. It will reach opposition (nearest approach and brightest view) on Jan 27th.

I got this shot on the 4th of Jan, I'm hoping to get one that is a little "crisper" some time in the next 2 or 3 weeks.

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1055/satbig3zj.jpg