On 03/12/2012 12:42 PM, Warp wrote:
> James Holsenback<nom### [at] nonecom>  wrote:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17312354
>
>> I've already been getting a nice view of this for the past several days.
>> Earlier last week when the moon was a crescent was rather nice too! So
>> if you happen to be outside early evening ... Look West!
>
>    I was wondering what the two planets could be. One of them was obviously
> (or perhaps not so obviously) Venus, but the other was a mystery. Possibly
> Mars, but it seemed quite bright taking into account that being on the
> Sun's side it would mean it would be quite far in its orbit.
>
>    OTOH Jupiter is even farther, significantly farther, to coincide visually
> with Venus. Of course Jupiter is a lot larger, but still...
>

It was exceptionally clear last evening, so I decided to setup the 
telescope ... Venus just appeared as a yellow-green fuzzy ball (not much 
to look at). Jupiter however a different story ... Interesting details 

enjoyed themselves, so it was worth the setup and break-down!

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