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jtuck004

(15,882 posts) Wed Oct 14, 2015, 08:41 AM Oct 2015

You don't have to be an astronomer to love Venus... - 4 visible planets...

http://earthsky.org/tonight/line-up-of-four-planets-before-sunrise-october-18

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury

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You don't have to be an astronomer to love Venus... - 4 visible planets... (Original Post) jtuck004 Oct 2015 OP

I saw it this morning. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #1

I was stationed in the Mojave for a while for training Recursion Oct 2015 #2

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. I saw it this morning.

Reply to jtuck004 (Original post)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 08:42 AM

Oct 2015

The dogs drag me out for their first bathroom break of the day before dawn, so I always get to greet the day with Venus and Orion (in the fall and winter).

Recursion

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2. I was stationed in the Mojave for a while for training

Reply to jtuck004 (Original post)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 08:46 AM

Oct 2015

One morning I was on the west side of a mountain at Oh Christ Thirty when the sunrise was starting. The sky was starting to get slightly illuminated, when suddenly over the mountain popped the brightest, purest light I had ever seen in my life. Venus. I had studied some astronomy so I could place it, but I totally got at that moment why it was considered divine back in the day.

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