Thursday, November 27, 2008

Venus, Jupiter and the Moon, in Conjunction

Venus, Jupiter, and the moon appear to be rapidly approaching each other. By December 1, they’ll all be within about 3 degrees of each other. Jack Horkeimer’s Star Gazer episode for this week talks about that.

When celestial objects appear close to each other, we call that a conjuction.

Incidentally, our next sidewalk astronomy event will be in Monrovia, at the corner of Myrtle and Lime, on Saturday, December 6. Come by from around 6pm until 9pm.

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