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The truly remarkable event - when Jupiter lines up with Venus, Mercury and Mars in the pre-dawn sky - will be visible in Australia's eastern sky this Friday. Its the closest Planetary grouping until 2040
The alignment of the four planets, which happens only once every 50 to 100 years, will occur just before sunrise, the Sydney Observatory says.
"Every couple of years you get two or three planets that come close together, but to have four is particularly rare," the observatory's education officer, Geoffrey Wyatt, said.
The last time Australians saw such a show was in 1910, and the next occasion would not be until 2056, Mr Wyatt said.
During the alignment, from 5am (AEST) on Friday, the four planets will be visible just above the horizon in the east.
Venus, in the middle of the group, will be the brightest. Just above and to the left will be Jupiter, while Mercury will be to the right of Jupiter and slightly fainter.
Early risers have already noticed Jupiter and Venus in the eastern sky before sunrise, Mr Wyatt said.
"It looks pretty much like two headlights coming towards you. We are getting lots of calls already saying there are two bright lights in the sky."
He wouldn't speculate on how the alignment might influence people, astrologically speaking.
Beginning May 11, the four planets Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars will rearrange themselves to form different patterns in the sky. This celestial spectacle can be easily seen through the naked eye. On May 13, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will form a triangle and on May 20, it will be Mars, Venus, and Mercury in the triangular position.
Though two other planets, Uranus and Neptune, will also participate in this show in the sky, but viewing them will need the aid of a telescope.
With the public release of some of the initial JWST images it is possible to download and process the raw data yourself.
Images were made at six infrared wavelengths and so the choice of mapping these images into an RGB colour space is left up to the end user.
In this I've tried to bring out the detail in the regions of this planetary nebula, formed as a star throws off its outer layers.
Raw data credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STSCI processing: Anthony Holloway
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 45 x 5 minute exposures (3 hour 45 minutes ) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 0:03 to 1:52 on the 24th of March, 2022.
Passing thin clouds.
The Soap Bubble Nebula, or PN G75.5+1.7, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus, near the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888).
Date: 30 Jan 2017
Mount: AP Mach 1
Imaging scope: AT8RC CCDT67 1080mm
Imaging camera: Trius SX-694
Lights: Ha 25 x 600 sec
OIII 23 x 600 sec
Calibration: none
Guide scope: OAG Lodestar
Other details: Captured with SGP, guided with PHD2, stacked in DSS processed in Photoshop
The team overseeing ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence pose with the spacecraft behind them in its ESTEC Test Centre cleanroom in the Netherlands.
They are joined in this photo by representatives from Tyvak International in Italy and GomSpace in Luxembourg – makers of the Milani and Juventas CubeSats respectively, which will join Hera on its journey into deep space – as well as Cheryl Reed of the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in the US – seen in the centre – who served as programme manager of NASA’s predecessor planetary defence mission DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Test).
Also represented is ISISpace in the Netherlands, manufacturer of the Deep Space Deployers that will store the miniature CubeSats during their journey to Didymos and deploy them upon arrival.
Hera and DART were conceived together and implemented as the international Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) international collaboration. Both missions are supported by a common community of planetary scientists.
On 26 September 2022 the van-sized DART spacecraft impacted the Dimorphos asteroid at around 6.1 km/s. This first test of the ‘kinetic impact’ method of planetary defence succeeded in modifying the orbit of the target asteroid around the larger Didymos body.
This October Hera will commence a two-year odyssey to the Didymos binary asteroid system to perform a close-up asteroid survey, gathering crucial missing information to turn DART’s grand-scale experiment into a well-understood and potentially repeatable planetary defence technique.
Credits: ESA
I think I should stop listening to MouseWorld Radio and Magical Mouse Radio. After hearing the Tomorrowland background music on one of those two stations yesterday, all I can think of is Tomorrowland. These withdrawals are bad, I think partially because we spent so little time in Tomorrowland at night on our December trip. In August, we ended the evening in Tomorrowland approximately six nights. In December, we ended in Tomorrowland on only one night. Much more emphasis was placed on the Christmas decorations then, so the other lands didn’t get nearly as much attention as they normally would have received. Now, as a result, I don’t know how I’m going to make it to our next Walt Disney World trip, which is many months away, to see my favorite land once again.
Even though we didn’t spend much time there in December, during one of the Christmas parties, while Sarah was buying some swag, I captured this shot of Mickey’s Star Traders. It captures a lot of my favorite things about Star Traders, including the planets orbiting around the Mickey head (which I unfortunately could not orient properly in this shot because do so would cause the mural to display poorly–the shots I have of the Mickey head oriented toward the camera don’t look as good because of the lack of mural) and the awesome mural. It might be a fairly plain shot, but for this huge Tomorrowland geek, it’s pretty cool!
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Check out the February 4, 2011 update to our December WDW trip report by clicking here! (navigate to last page).
M27, the Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nubula in Vulpecula. Its about 1360 ly away and is easily visible in binoculars.
42 mins captured with the H183 on an RC8. Stacked in DSS, postprocessed in Pixinsight.
“Artist Concept - Planetary payload.”
This is a cropped version of a depiction I’ve come across quite often. Of course, NOT while I look for it, with the foolish/unfounded expectation that if/when I come across it, it’ll have a more substantive caption/description.
So, my usual drivel follows: Something I’ve never noticed before; this is one of the few artist’s concepts, due to the perspective, that provides an excellent view of this near final shuttle design in which the OMS Pod “pods”/fairings extend into the OPEN payload bay doors. Along with the retractable forward reaction control system engines of the time & ‘B-9 environmental robot’ RMS ‘end effector’.
The satellite itself has also always piqued my interest. There’s at least one other image in this family/series that shows the rolled/folded up solar arrays beginning to deploy. With that, note that the primary payload is rather detailed, more than just a generic ‘planetary probe’ configuration. Finally, that’s an Agena tug, or Agena something or another, right?
Possibly by Henry Lozano? Ted Brown? Manuel Alvarez?
An unusually heavy & thick “THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK” watermarked photo paper. Good thing, as this photo has not been taken care of.
Not related, other than being an Agena...and fascinating:
www.thespacereview.com/article/4174/1
Credit: "The Space Review" website
Back to planetary nebulae, here is NGC 246, known as the 'Skull Nebula' and the 'Pac Man Nebula', in the southern constellation of Cetus, the 'Whale'. Given its distance of about 1,600 light-years and its apparent size of about 4.7 by 4.1 arc-minutes, it is about 2.2 light-years across.
Captured 30 November 2021 with 10 x 10 seconds of live stacking using the Arkaroola Imaging Observatory. The inset enlarges 18 x 12 arc-minutes by 300%.
Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany, Canon EOS 600Dα, Ikharos ED refractor D = 80 mm f/5.6, 118 exposures of 30 s each at 1600 ISO, tracking only. Bayer averaged and binned twofold again; curve stretch. Named Helical nebula. Also known as Caldwell 63.
This is what crater Orontius and its surroundings looked like last night (09/09/16).
Orontius is a 122km diameter crater in the southern highlands of the Moon's near side. As seen, this part of the moon is really cratered. The Eastern part of Orontius is overlain by Huggins crater, which is also overlain by Nasidderin crater. This last one limits Miller crater.
Telescope: D=150mm, F=1200mm
Eyepiece: 7mm
Disintegrating Planetary Existence.
La disminución de las criaturas extrínsecos convertibles verdades divinas cambiantes esencia inmutable,
approchant la compréhension des connaissances éminence pénétrante enluminures effets lointains,
confortatus est momenti materia nota immensitate species praedicta connaturalitate,
Vorfahren berühmten Jahrhunderte böswillige bitteren Herzen ständigen Kriege glühender Chancen Macht umgibt,
不公正的邪惡寬大嚴酷的教訓唆使暴徒脾氣敵人憤怒鞭笞孵化地塊,
блуждающих несбалансированным ОПЕРАЦИЙ безграничные основы против раструбили будущих неблагоприятных подарков,
تبقى المتمردين أصوات تشتبك قادة سنوات يرثى لها معايير الهمجية المشينة القوانين المعطلة داخل,
εξαφανίστηκε συμβούλια έσβησε το πρωί προσευχές έκπληκτος ευκαιρία για αναδύεται σφαίρες λήθαργο λόγους,
厳粛な基準は、ペノンが高いボディをヒービング武装法律を行進恐ろしい文字を破壊上昇します.
Steve.D.Hammond.
As used in my two recent models Euclid R-170 mining truck and Marathon LeTourneau L-1200 wheel loader.
The planetary drive makes use of the Power Miners wheels with 48-tooth ring gear. There is a central 16-tooth gear, the sun gear, driven by the differential axle and four surrounding 16-tooth planetary gears, thus resulting in a gear ratio of 1:3.
The wheel hubs are each made of two of the Power Miners wheels with the spokes facing each other. The rubber tires are then forced on this self-made hubs.
Gidge is Interplanetary In:
Lips: alaskametro<3 "Space Unicorn" lipstick 03 FIT B
Eyeshadow: alaskametro<3 "Space Unicorn" eyeshadow 01 FIT A
Necklace: (Yummy) Serenity Layered Necklace Set (Gen.X) Classic
Body: -Belleza- Gen.X Classic Body (SL UVS) PG V1.2
Head: / HEAD / lel EvoX RAVEN 3.1
Dress: Blueberry - Secret Spell - Dress - Genx Classic
Shoes: Blueberry - Secret Spell - Heels - GenX Classic
Blueberry - Secret Spell - Panties: Panties - GenX Classic
Hair: Exile:: Polly (B)
Earrings: piccolo.// polly panda earring
Pop: piccolo.// polly panda pop
Skin: alaskametro<3 "Lily" skin Tone 2 Fit B - lgt brow (mesh bodies)
Shot on Location at: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Le%20Monde%20Magique/123/2...
In memory of Nate "Nnenn" Nielson.
Will also be on display at BrickWorld in the Missing Man Formation.
From upper left to lower right - conjunction of Mars, Moon and Venus. Taken Stockport UK. Taken 2/1/2017
Jupiter and Saturn dance aroun each other, appearing close in the sky on three consecutive days, December 20, 21, and 22, 2020. Various exposures were combined to reveal detail on the planets and make their brightest moons visible.
Tech: Nikon D850, Celestron C5 (1,250mm f/10), iOptron CEM25P drive. Multiple frames with three exposure times: 1/25 sec., ISO 250, 4 sec., ISO 4000, 8 sec., ISO 6400, processed in Lightroom, stacked in Photoshop (registered and median-combined).
Composite of first images captured with new camera. Saturn captured 6/16/2015
Venus and Jupiter captured 6/17/2015
ASI120MC-S
Celestron CPC800 XLT
This is a stitched panorama of the current six planet lineup in our night sky as seen from my backyard on 27 January 2025, Two planets in the lineup that are not visible are Uranus and Neptune as they are too dim to register in the photo. Neptune is however located just a little left of Venus and Uranus is midway between jupiter and the Pleiades open star cluster midway top in the photo