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Udupi: A Whole Week of Celestial Treat for Sky Gazers

  •   Tue, Nov 27 2012 10:23:43 AM

Udupi: A Whole Week of Celestial Treat for Sky Gazers

Dr A P Bhat
Poorna Prajna College, Udupi

Udupi, Nov 27: A celestial treat awaits sky gazers for a whole week from now.

Astronomy enthusiasts will get an opportunity to see planets Venus and Saturn very close together from Tuesday November 27 early morning.

In the evening planet Jupiter will be very close to full moon and both will be close to the star Aldeberan-Rohini.

Moon is very close to Earth at a distance of 3,84,000 km, but Jupiter is nearly 740 million km from Sun and 590 million km from Earth. The star Rohini is at 66 light years from Earth. One light year is 3 lac ×60 × 60 × 24 × 365 km.

Even Venus is 110 million km from Sun and 40 million km from Earth but Saturn is 1,400 million km from Sun.

In size, Saturn is 1000 times bigger than Venus. Jupiter is 64,000 times bigger than the Moon and the star Rohini is 100 million times bigger than the planet Jupiter.

Strangely though, they will appear nearly the same size and of the same distance when viewed in the sky.

The planets will be visible for a week.
  

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  • juliana, udupi

    Wed, Nov 28 2012

    I am not able to recognize planets in the sky though I try hard to trace Venus, Saturn and Mars let alone the other five planets circling Sun along with Earth. I am curious but my knowledge is less in viewing these celestial bodies. These Scientists are very clever to find out even a small change in the sky. If only we could see some living bodies like human beings on these planets and stars so that we could arrange some picnic to those places like we do on Earth to see their culture and prosperity. But it is only a dream at present. We are nearing end of Earth as some people argue.

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  • Robert, Udyavar / Dubai

    Wed, Nov 28 2012

    Very informative article with appropriate images. Thanks for sharing in on DW.

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  • shalini salian, mangalore

    Tue, Nov 27 2012

    Sky gazers should get a chance to view this spectacular celestial treat. thanks daijiworld for informing us.

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  • R.Bhandarkar., M

    Tue, Nov 27 2012

    Deae SS (N0 2)
    Nature Lovers usually take a 'Walk', Astronomy Lovers usually 'Gaze'- I think all types of 'Lovers'should view this 'Miracle' (as you put it) and hope for the best ......

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  • wavettore, Italy

    Tue, Nov 27 2012

    New and old Science

    A new and Progressive Science shows how Wavevolution, or the transformation from waves to atoms, is the connecting link that closes the circle of science to open our eyes toward new horizons never seen before.

    The bureaucracy of traditional science prevents the recognition of any event unless certain criteria are first met. The problem of this science is buried deep in the compilation of these "laws" or criteria introduced by a few scientists in the name of all science and from their erroneous understanding of the relation between Space and Time. This antiquated system of rules also results in misleading theories.

    For example, Space is not “curved”.

    In Einstein's paradigm, a stone that falls on the ground from the window of a moving train also marks one parabola in Space. Although, this path is only apparent since the Earth is also moving and the Time spent by the stone to reach the ground has also changed to some degree that imaginary vertical line. At the Time of the initial Movement when the stone falls from the window, its potential trajectory is one perpendicular Space that is no longer the same as the stone continues to move until it hits the ground. If the scientist had known that the coordinates of Space in Time are unique and unrepeatable then all the rest would have also been "straight". That perpendicular is straight but accounted as “curve” because of the limits of science unable to recognize the issue of simultaneity. In reference to each body on each moment in Time there are always only two coordinates in Space for one perpendicular.
    And with two coordinates there is no curve.
    One perpendicular is unrepeatable and never the same because while the measure of it is repeatable and any measurement can be applied for different segments instead one perpendicular marked in Time will never again have the same spatial positioning. The perpendicular changes in Time but Einstein believed the concept of Space to be independent from Time.

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  • IVAN DSOUZA, Mangalore

    Tue, Nov 27 2012

    Spectacular and amazing to see the picture's then what will be in reality to reach near, only Creator knows its limits and created with unlimited source giving nature. He is the source of things but many human fails or lack to understand creaters power may be because of our weekness of selfishness.

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, M'LORE/BAHRAIN

    Tue, Nov 27 2012

    Spectacular view...!!

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  • shalini salian, mangalore

    Tue, Nov 27 2012

    hope it is visible to us atleast once this week. nature lovers should view this miracle.

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  • sam, mangalore/doha

    Tue, Nov 27 2012

    WOW !! Fascinating !

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