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Folgende Zeilen fand ich sehr interessant, und das ganze gab es erst vor paar Tagen zu sehen, zumindest wenn man nicht wie ich seit Wochen hinter Nebel und Wolken steckt...
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For a few days in mid-December 2004, the planets Mercury through Pluto are arranged from east to west in Earth's sky in the same order that they're positioned outward from the Sun. This situation begins when Mercury passes inferior conjunction (between the Sun and Earth) on December 10th, and it ends when Pluto leaves the evening sky on the 13th. Only the planets Venus through Saturn are observable with the unaided eye on these nights, with Uranus and Neptune visible in binoculars and telescopes. Both Mercury and Pluto are hidden in the Sun's glare.
Such a lineup is rarer than a transit of Venus. Apart from a similar brief interval in November 2002, the planets have not been arrayed in their natural order westward from the Sun since before the invention of the telescope, and they won't be again for at least four centuries.
A line of planets stretching to the east of the Sun is equally rare. This occurred in late February and March 1801, and it won't happen again until April 2333!
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For a few days in mid-December 2004, the planets Mercury through Pluto are arranged from east to west in Earth's sky in the same order that they're positioned outward from the Sun. This situation begins when Mercury passes inferior conjunction (between the Sun and Earth) on December 10th, and it ends when Pluto leaves the evening sky on the 13th. Only the planets Venus through Saturn are observable with the unaided eye on these nights, with Uranus and Neptune visible in binoculars and telescopes. Both Mercury and Pluto are hidden in the Sun's glare.
Such a lineup is rarer than a transit of Venus. Apart from a similar brief interval in November 2002, the planets have not been arrayed in their natural order westward from the Sun since before the invention of the telescope, and they won't be again for at least four centuries.
A line of planets stretching to the east of the Sun is equally rare. This occurred in late February and March 1801, and it won't happen again until April 2333!