Six Planets Now Aligned in the Dawn Sky

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Geoff Gaherty, Starry Night EducationDate: 29 April 2011 Time: 12:32 AM ET



If you get up any morning for the next few weeks, you’ll be treated to the sight of all the planets except Saturn arrayed along the ecliptic, the path of the sun through the sky.

For the last two months, almost all the planets have been hiding behind the sun, but this week they all emerge and are arrayed in a grand line above the rising sun. Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter are visible, and you can add Uranus and Neptune to your count if you have binoculars or a small telescope.

This sky map of the six planets shows how they should appear at dawn to observers with clear weather and an unobstructed view.

Astrologers have always been fascinated by planetary alignments, and the doomsayers of 2012 have been prophesying a mystical alignment on Dec. 21, 2012.

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http://www.livescience.com/13943-skywatching-tips-6-planets-visible-dawn.html

[Speck Tater]

1. For those of us living in Oregon, what is this "sky" thing you speak of? nt

[cleanhippie]

3. And the "sun" ? What is that? We don't have that here in the Puget Sound.

All of our sunshine comes in liquid form.

[Raschel]

4. lol, same in Minneapolis. No clear skies here!

[elleng]

2. Thanks, doc.

Took the liberty to cross-post this at ASAH.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Bullshit on the "doomsayers of 2012" staw man

That is a full-on skanky materialist low-blow strawman falsehood in this supposedly 'scientific' article.

If you listen to the traditional Mayan Daykeepers, they talk about change and transformation -- not doom. It is the end of a calendar, not the end of the world. Hello? Since when do so-called scientists just make shit up? Wait, forget that I asked that...

What gratuitous claptrap.

[caraher]

8. No scientist disses the Mayans in this article

If you follow the http://www.livescience.com/3689-world-2012-hoax.html">link inside the article in the OP, you'll find that the "doomsayers of 2012" in question are people at Sony Pictures and a hoax website they created to plug their dumb movie.

[Posteritatis]

9. 2012 is a Mayan Y2K bug turned into mystical silliness by others, and absolutely nothing more. (nt)

[Sadena Meti]

10. It's just an odometer rolling over. It's done it 4 or 5 times before.

[grasswire]

6. Is this the dawning of the age of Aquarius?

Just askin'.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Just to be safe, we all better grow our hair long and stop bathing.