The Grand Conjunction!

[thewayne]

Cool! Which means that it will probably be snowing at the observatory when I'm there Monday and we won't see a thing!

This coming Sunday and Monday, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Mercury, the Sun and the Galactic Center will all be lined up! There will also be a full moon and an unusual Pluto-Sun conjunction on the Solstice.

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/12/behold-the-gran.html

Comments

[silveradept]

Neat. All the ducks in a row. I hope we've got something that can take a picture of it and send it back to us.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I would imagine that they might try to use Hubble for something like this, but who knows. I should ask my wife if this is something that can be photographed by Hubble.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

What a cool day! (I caught the reference before clicking the link!) And the perspective of a tiny speck of dust lining up with other ones is kinda funny too.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

cool!

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

At least it won't be like the celestial alignment in that SciFi Highlander movie! LOL!