If it weren't for the fact that my work starts at 7:00, and I have to travel about an hour, I wouln't commit the terrible sin of getting up so early...
But I do, and I have seen all these planets.
Venus is obvious: whenever it is visible, it is the brightest star.
Jupiter is just starting to become visible; when it is, it is the next-brightest star.
I think I have seen Mercury next to Jupiter - but I will have to check my astronomical annuary ("Das Himmelsjahr", in German).
Saturn is now very close to Venus - together with the fixed-start, Aldebaran.
Hilmar.
>Check out
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast10jul_1.htm?friend:>
>"This is a good week to wake up early and see the planets," agrees astronomy professor George Lebo. "Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn are all emerging from the Sun's glare in the eastern morning sky, and they're about to form some outrageous groupings."
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>Unfortunately, it seems to be "cloudy season" here - maybe things will start to clear up soon...J
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
