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Venus -Uranus conjunction 4th March 2015

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9 years 3 weeks ago #103309 by flt158
Hi all. I see on my calendars that there is an extremely tight conjunction on Wednesday night (4/03/15) with Venus and Uranus only 10 arc minutes apart. According to Guide 8 and Guy Ottewell this will be the closest planetary conjunction of 2015.
Unfortunately, I shall not be free to observe it. Perhaps someone else will.

Aubrey.
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9 years 3 weeks ago #103320 by Fermidox
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Needed the 8 inch to catch a fleeting glimpse through scudding cloud Aubrey, quite impressive in spite of - or perhaps because of - the vast disparity between the two; Venus more than 9,000 times brighter than its 'neighbour' B)

Mars' turn next week, ¼° from Uranus on the eleventh.
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9 years 3 weeks ago #103330 by flt158
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I am delighted someone saw this conjunction. Even when I got home at about 10pm, the sky in Dublin was overcast.

Well done Fermidox. What magnification did you use? And was Uranus as green as Ireland?

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9 years 3 weeks ago #103348 by Fermidox
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It was the workhorse 32mm Aubrey, so x63. Uranus looked pale, almost translucent to my eyes, but then conditions were mediocre or worse. Managed a few dslr shots but had no opportunity to take any through the scope -

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