Thread: Teakdoor Amateur Astronomy Club

Get your arse outside before dawn and check out the awesome alignment of Jupiter -> Venus -> Mars -> Saturn

Like a string of equidistant pearls arcing along a 30 degree filament of the velvet firmament

Pics to follow.

Say if I wanted to get into it, what should I buy ?

They are upside down where you are aren't they Loops? The lack of light pollution on the Falklands, Ushuaia and South Georgia was amazing to see the sky filled with stars

Star gazers and budding astrologers will have the chance to catch a glimpse of a rare alignment of Saturn, Mars, Venus and Jupiter and a crescent moon from April 25th to 27th.


The National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) said that the rare celestial phenomenon across the morning sky can be seen on in the eastern sky with the naked eye from all parts of Thailand from 4am until sunrise, if the skies are clear.


The crescent moon will be seen next to Saturn on Monday and then move closer to Venus and Jupiter on Tuesday and Wednesday, said NARIT.


According to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), at the start of April Saturn appeared to move toward Mars each day, with Venus, Mars and Saturn forming a trio in the southeast before sunrise.


By the middle of the month, Jupiter started to rise in the pre-dawn hours. The movement means that the planets are seen in a line across the morning sky.


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^Already documented and notarised here in the spanky new thread.

Teakdoor Amateur Astronomy Club

And this personal observation was not prompted from a website notification but simply from being gob smacked when I walked outside.

Just in time for my daughter getting her first telescope.

Nice one Lopper!

I just bought my daughter a กล้องดูดาวหักเหแสง TRAVEL SCOPE 80 PORTABLE TELESCOPEIt is a good place to start but you can obviously only really see up-close images of the moon and with the right filter the sun.

This website seems to be really good and they have lots of deals on at the moment. It was delivered within 48hrs as well and has been really helpful.

Total lunar eclipse (Blood moon) 15/16th May as well.

I found the Astronomy Club thread in Asia News.

It gets around a bit this thread!

Anyhoo here is the new crescent moon just after sunset. Only chinko mobile phone unfortunately. I will remember my long lens next time

Get your arses outside just before dawn today and witness the awesome spectacle of the waning crescent moon chasing Venus across the sky like a giant dot-eating pacman

Its different up Norf Loops, its grey and cloudy and upside down.