dec 12 line up in sky....

[katydid]

https://twitter.com/DxTheMystery/status/1470101853174120458


this is a cool picture of the 5 planets, the moon and 2. asteroids that are visible in the night sky now.

 

[Bunraku]

What does this mean ? Planetary alignments often portend calamitous events. Should I be worried or just enjoy the sights? lol...

 

[JUPITERASC]

https://twitter.com/DxTheMystery/status/1470101853174120458

this is a cool picture of the 5 planets,

the moon and 2. asteroids that are visible in the night sky now

And pluto is actually conjuncting venus exact

but it's so small that it's probably obscured by Venus.

It's photoshopped
even using telescopes
- sole planets visible are Venus Jupiter Saturn




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[JUPITERASC]

What does this mean ?

Planetary alignments often portend calamitous events.
Should I be worried or just enjoy the sights? lol...

if local skies are clear of light polllution
and clouds
then
Venus Jupiter & Saturn solely visible
even when viewing from a rural location




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[david starling]

is visible in clear skies, if you know where to look.

Ceres is easily visible with a good pair of binoculars.

Venus is by far the most visible planet in the night-sky.

 

[JUPITERASC]

And pluto

is actually conjuncting venus exact

but it's so small

that it's probably obscured by Venus.

Pluto doesn't reflect light.

Pluto doesn't carry a message for us.

You can't see pluto with the naked eye.

There are thousands of Pluto Like objects in the orbit of the sun,
so
if we are using pluto
we should be using those objects too.
The problem is that we assume
that because pluto is in our solar system
it should be added to our astrological calculations.

 

[JUPITERASC]

And pluto is actually

conjuncting venus exact

but it's so small that

it's probably obscured by Venus.

Dwarf planet Pluto's orbit is so remote
from the light of our Sun
that any light reflected by Pluto is too weak to render it visible
to observers on Earth.
That's why it was only discovered very recently,
only 84 years ago with the aid of powerful telescopes.

Use an ordinary camera and take a picture of the night sky
and you'll frequently see a bright Moon.
An ordinary camera cannot show an image of Pluto
– ONLY A SPECIALLY POWERFUL CAMERA AIDED BY TELESCOPES CAN
and so
when viewing night skies one Pluto is invisble
UNLESS aided by powerful modern telescopes
That's because pluto's '...light...' is so WEAK it's barely visible
even when a powerful telescope manages to capture an image.


So dwarf planet Pluto does NOT reflect the light of the Sun sufficiently
to render it's presence visible to the general public/'...ordinary folk...' observing the night skies on planet Earth
using unaided vision with no artificial aids/equipment
because '...ordinary folk...' have no access to expensive telescopes
That's in complete contrast to:

Venus, Jupiter, Saturn
ALL of whom STRONGLY REFLECT the light of the Sun which they orbit




The photo is of Pluto

.....as viewed through the most powerful telescope on Earth.
Why isn't it in stunning Techni-Color?
I guess you guys were all expecting something different

All of you do know and understand that the photos you get from Hubble
are all digitally enhanced with computer software
to make them pretty, right?

'.......since pluto's discovery - currently 90 years ago -
telescopes have gotten much more powerful
and astronomers much more clever.
They have found there are 50-100 objects orbiting the sun that are exactly like Pluto.
Some of these, like Eris, are bigger that Pluto
There are objects that are more like planets than Pluto is
and
if we were to include Pluto as a planet
then we would have to include
the 50 other insignificant hunks of rock floating around our sun.
There is literally nothing separating Pluto from the 50 other ‘...planets...’ that we have discovered.
And that would be assigning equal weight to their importance.
Because as harsh as it is
there is not much that is interesting about these dwarf planets.
They are just lumps of rock and ice
that are indistinguishable from their moons of rock and ice


Quote:
nearly 100 objects like QB1 have been found.

They are thought to be similar to Pluto in composition
and like Pluto, many orbit the sun .
This swarm of Pluto-like objects is known as the Kuiper Belt
after Gerard Kuiper
who first proposed that such a belt existed
and served as a source of short period comets.


Astronomers estimate that there are at least 35,000 Kuiper Belt objects
greater than 100 km in diameter
which is several hundred times the number
and mass
of similar sized objects in the main asteroid belt.
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stars are classified in groups of " ...brilliance... ".
Stars of 1st magnitude are the most brilliant ones,


For example Spica, Sirius
are twice and a half times more brilliant than the group 2 stars,
the latter being themselves twice and a half times more brilliant than the group 3, and so forth.
To the naked eye, it is possible to see them up to the group 6 only.


As a matter of rule, the more brilliant the star
the more active it is in astrology.
However, there are exceptions
for instance in the case of nebulas which shine dimly.
Given that dwarf planet pluto's alleged '...brilliance...'

is a mere 13.6 - 14th magnitude
unsurprisingly then:
that even under the best of circumstances, finding Pluto isn’t easy.
Pluto never shows a resolvable disk
in even the largest backyard telescope,
and instead, always appears like a tiny star-like point.

When opposition occurs near perihelion
as it last did in 1989
Pluto can reach a maximum “...brilliancy...” of magnitude +13.6.
However, Pluto has an extremely elliptical orbit

ranging from 30 to 49 Astronomical Units (A.U.s) from the Sun.
In 2014, Pluto has dropped below +14th magnitude at opposition
as it heads back out towards aphelion one century from now in 2114


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