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Article #3715Re: Bright planet in the evening sky
From: Dave Michelson
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:00
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:00
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In article <726585130snz@cullen.demon.co.uk> bobg@cullen.demon.co.uk writes: > >I'm not an astronomical type so would one of you experts please satisfy >my curiosity ? > >Each evening at about this time of year one sees a very bright planet >lying to the southwest from my position at around 52N. It is at, I would >judge 45 to 50 degreed up from the horizontal. It is very bright. > >Is it Mercury ? Is it Jupiter ? I don't suppose it's Venus - that's >called "The Morning Star", is that right. > The planet in question is Venus. It can be either the morning star or the evening star but not both at the same time :). I recall reading that it took the Ancients quite a while to catch on that the morning and evening stars were one and the same. I think you're generalizing a bit to imply that it's visible "each evening at this time of year". It's a bit more complicated than that... -- Dave Michelson davem@ee.ubc.cva
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Newsgroups: sci.astro Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!fs1.ee.ubc.ca!davem From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson) Subject: Re: Bright planet in the evening sky Message-ID: <1993Jan10.030010.16873@ee.ubc.ca> Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering References: <726585130snz@cullen.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:00:10 GMT Lines: 25