12-01-2008, 05:41 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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The Venus and Jupiter Show
By Mother Nature!
Go outside and look to the SSW. Next to the moon, you'll see Venus and Jupiter. I don't recall ever seeing Jupiter so bright.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/obser.../35217944.html
Amazing.
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12-01-2008, 05:42 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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God, I thought they were two airplanes coming in to land.
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12-01-2008, 05:44 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Clinching Party
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Seriously, go outside right now. It's quite a sight.
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12-01-2008, 05:48 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: St. Albert
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Other than a little cloud cover the view is wicked.
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12-01-2008, 05:48 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Darn clouds just rolled in.
20 minutes ago it was awesome.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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12-01-2008, 06:01 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: nexus of the universe
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Colour me dissapointed, I thought there was a Sailor Moon spin-off on the air.
I think I saw one of them, but it was moving really fast. The sky has been a busy place the last little while.
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12-01-2008, 06:03 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Neat, thanks for posting this.
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12-01-2008, 06:08 PM
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It was a great sight just as the sun was setting and there was still some blue in the sky.
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Originally Posted by photon
Neat, thanks for posting this.
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http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=66230
There was earlier warning. 
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12-01-2008, 06:37 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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I remember in 99 Jupiter was this close, even with a small telescope you can see the big hurricane (red spot) ...very cool.
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12-01-2008, 07:53 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Looked great tonight until the clouds rolled in.
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12-01-2008, 08:27 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hell
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dammit, cant see it
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12-01-2008, 08:29 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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stupid snow and hurricane force winds...
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12-01-2008, 08:37 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayems
stupid snow and hurricane force winds...
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Interesting, After i read this i thought i better put the truck in the garage, ran downstairs only to find no snow and just a little breezy outside. I too am in NW Calgary....hmmm 
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12-01-2008, 10:42 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Dead Rear, AB
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I saw this from my balcony in China a couple nights ago and for a minute I honestly thought it was a UFO very far away after looking at it with my binoculars, lol. It's just SO much brighter than anything else in the sky it doesn't look right, and when I looked at it with binoculars it looked like it was 5 or 6 lights in a circle with one in the middle, but obviously it was playing tricks on my eyes...wish I had a telescope and could see it without being in the middle of a smog and light polluted sky.
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12-01-2008, 10:46 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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I'll try and take some pics tomorrow night if it's clear enough.
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12-02-2008, 06:10 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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I have a bunch I just took, but here's one real quick. I'll upload some others after the game.
Last edited by Jayems; 12-02-2008 at 06:13 PM.
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12-02-2008, 06:15 PM
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Late Bloomer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Campo De Golf
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Thanks for posting this. The kids didn't know you could see other planets. They thought they were all stars
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12-02-2008, 09:13 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Yeah trying to explain this to my 4 1/2 year old led to some interesting conversation, he kept insisting they were stars.
Then when my wife pointed them out to him after supper as Jupiter and Mars he says firmly, "No! Jupiter and VENUS!"
That's my boy!
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12-02-2008, 09:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
Yeah trying to explain this to my 4 1/2 year old led to some interesting conversation, he kept insisting they were stars.
Then when my wife pointed them out to him after supper as Jupiter and Mars he says firmly, "No! Jupiter and VENUS!"
That's my boy!
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LOL! I was explaining it to my 2 year old tonight as well. He's still a little puzzled, but has always been fascinated by the night sky.
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