>Hilmar,
>
>>>Hilmar,
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>>>They have been very bright here in Utah.
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>>I suppose you mean Venus and Jupiter.
>
>Right. sorry.. I had thought it was Venus & Mars though but apparently it's not..
Well, yes. My comment was related to the fact that the
original thread was about Venus and Jupiter, but had, in the meantime, drifted to another topic (also astronomical).
>I know far too little about this subject but it sure is fun to get the telescope out on a dark night when it's warm and look at the heavens. I took a look at the moon once and about burnt out my eye it was so bright. <s>
BTW, you can
literally burn your eyes if you try to look at the sun. The recommended (safest) method for sunwatching is the projection method: project the image, from the telescope, onto a piece of white paper. You can usually see large sunspots, if there are any.
Hilmar.
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)
