Celestial Show Set for New Year's Eve

Celestial Show Set for New Year's Eve

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A delightful display of planets and the moon will occur on New Year's Eve for anyone wishing to step outside and look up just after sunset.

Venus, brighter than all other planets and stars, will dangle just below the thin crescent moon in the southwestern sky. It'll be visible -- impossible to miss, in fact -- just as the sun goes down, assuming skies are cloud-free.

Soon thereafter, Mercury and Jupiter will show up hugging the south-southwestern horizon (just above where the sun went down) and extremely close to each other. Jupiter is very bright and easy to spot; Mercury is faint and harder to see, but it'll be apparent by its location just to the left of Jupiter.

Jupiter and Mercury will set less than an hour after the sun, so timing your viewing just after sunset is crucial. You'll also need a location with a clear view of the western horizon, unobstructed by buildings, trees or mountains.

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This should be cool, anybody want to take some pics and post that would be great, obviously with all of the bad things going on in the world today it's nice to sometimes view some natural beauty, I'll attempt to photograph this and post what I capture, as I'm not too camera savey I'll make no promises, but would like to see other members pics.I also live in the city so I experience allot of light pollution so mine might not come out as good, all in all this is deffinatley cool!

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Thanks for the post. It'll be a nice day to end the year!

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Your welcome! I'm gonna take my camera to work with me and attempt to take some pics, hopefully they will come out good..we'll see

Hey, just for curiosity I checked out your profile.
You and I share the same birthday. Not same year though.

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cool indeed!
i haven't met allot of others born mar 11th,I have some cool star fact for mar 11 1981 I could try to find you some for any other year?

Venus should really bright and next to a crescent moon eh?

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Awesome, I'm the first in with a picture of it!!!





No need to thank me, I'm awesome, I know.



Actually, I'll be looking forward to it myself... so long as it's a clear night.

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I'll thank you in advance anyway I also added a pic from Space.com showing what it'll look like and you are right on the money!

Thanks for the info...I'll try and get some picyures.

Fingers crossed for a clear sky tonite.

That's Great info to enrich people's lives.Thanks a lot.

thanks for this, i had no idea. this is why i love this site.

i have pics of the other little display a month or so ago i need to post when jupiter, venus and the moon were all packed together.

Thanks for the heads up. I will be out there to see the sight.

Quadrantid meteor showers possibly 60 to 120 meteors per hour. Sat. morning peaking around 6:00 A.M.mountain time(GMT-7), North American viewers.

Great light show!

Oh someone please try to get a picture for me, I am stuck at work! I am going to try and sneak out to peek at it though.

maybe its my perspective but i can only see the moon and venus. i'll post my crappy pics if anyone wants to see.

I caught the sight tonight. Thanks for the heads up. It was cool.

However I couldn't find Neptune.

Well i caught the show and took some pic's but I couldn't see Neptune well at least not with the camera but here's what I did get not that cool but I tried
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Ok well I'm having trouble resizing the image could anybody help?

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Ok lets try this again, I know it's not the whole group but look how clear Venus is, that's my favorite part, hope you all enjoy!

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Thanks Hellmutt
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Very cool, Glad you got a picture. I missed it last night.
Thanks

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Your welcome! I'm just bummed about missing the group all together, I was just a little late