No rush:
"From now until early June the five planets that can be seen with the
naked eye -- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn -- will move into
a rough grouping on the same, visible, side of the sun, something that
happens only once a century.
"People will be able to see the planets with the naked eye lining up
about 45 minutes after sunset," Robert Warren at the Royal Observatory
in Greenwich, London told Reuters Friday.
He said stargazers should watch the planets rising from the western
horizon where the five should be grouped within a span of 10 degrees of
sky, or about the width of a fist held at arm's length.
Moose
Kierstin wrote:
is it really true that there will be a 5 (yes I said 5) planet
alignment tonight, in England?
If it is true, which I plan to be checking all night, is there
someone, anyone who would agree to take a good, no what the heck, a
GREAT picture for me to add to my children's scrapbooks?
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