
Conjunction Jupiter-Venus on 30th June 2015 ~ The little big wonders!
This picture i only post into communities, which tolerate the added link informations (short time-lapse video of the happening and respective information of "The Cosmos News", which i personally consider being all the contrary to spam.
Thanks a lot #DilettantePhotography for your openness and tolerance!
Last week i wondered, when i saw the sky. I took some pictures of the moon and also this main picture, showing the planets as tiny little spots. On this picture added a separately taken moon picture, as the moon was on the other side.
Apart from the beautiful full moon, i saw these little "stars" so close together and i knew, that at that time of the evening, i had never seen this before. Later i saw the post of +Martin Gstoehl who mentioned the reason. I love to add Martin's short and interesting time lapse video: he called it "Celestial RENDEZ-VOUS" :-)
https://youtu.be/f4f6Gc7XtTQ
More information:
After an absence of roughly 2000 years the Star of Bethlehem making a return to our night skies on June 30, 2015 — to be more specific Venus and Jupiter will be making their tightest highly visible conjunction in nearly two millennia.
The reference to the Star of Bethlehem is with regard to the fact that there was a very similar ultratight conjunction between the two — and close by the star Regulus (as this one will be), and high up in the sky (as this will be as well) — in 3-2 BC. Some astronomers have in the past speculated that this earlier conjunction is what the “Star of Bethlehem” referred to.
https://youtu.be/4-8eSyxSAW4
My father was, back in the '60s, a serious astronomer, and a curator for a university's planetarium. He did a 'Christmas Star' program presentation, and it featured this "star of Bethlehem", predominantly. He was one of the 'early adopters' of this theory for the Christmas star. :-)
ReplyDeleteOshi Shikigami oh h0w interesting i find your telling us this!
ReplyDeletehe was a very wise man dear Oshi! you lucky one...i would have loved to have a guidance father