Get the telescopes ready!

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury

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I think I see Mars tonight. Looks a little redish.

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Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all visible in the evening. Mars was at Opposition this month over the last couple of weeks. ie Closest to earth. I've been sketching it from my backyard with my small telescope and got a series of 12 pencil sketches of it wich I think are quite neat. Be quite a few years before the next opposition I believe.

- Peter.

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2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
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Haven't had any luck spotting any of the Leonids. Don't know whether it has been bad timing on my part or what. I've got a clear view of Orion and a dark sky but so far, nada.

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Hah! FINALY spotted a meteor. Oddly enough, it was at 6:30 AM this morning with a clear blue sky. Spent the last few nights craning my neck up at the night sky without a sighting.

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Dammit .

Los Angeles has too much ambient ground light to see any stars .

I can see the occasional satellite but that's it .

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1984 Euro 300TD Fully optioned SWMBO's
1974 350SLC 4 speed SOLD & missed
Kooky Kommie Ural Motocycles (3)
BMW Moto R60/6 Barn Find, 8,000miles
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Gotta get out into the desert, or take a drive up Mt Wilson. There's a reason they put the observatory up there.

- Peter.

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2000 GMC Sonoma
Formerly...
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

I just spent two consecutive weekends out in the Desert, I drove two days to Bakersfield via back roads then Death Valley .

Trouble was, by the time night fell this old man was plumb tuckered out .

We did do some star gazing in Beatty, Nevada just before sunup ~ I was upon a Motorbike and it was bitterly cold but I had to look a while before going in search of coffee .

Right now the Angeles Crest Highway is closed, you cannot reach Mount Wilson .

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1982 240D stripper 393,000 miles
1984 300CD KEEPER ! 481,XXX miles
1984 Euro 300TD Fully optioned SWMBO's
1974 350SLC 4 speed SOLD & missed
Kooky Kommie Ural Motocycles (3)
BMW Moto R60/6 Barn Find, 8,000miles
1959 VW #113 DeLuxe Beetle, 36hp engine, stock
Junk, Rust, Arthritis, Crushed Spine,Broken Neck, Back & arm, lots of screws, pins & plates .
Memories, Peace Of Mind
facts & reality don't change because you can't handle them

Most of my skywatching these days is usually searching for space junk. It's amazing how many Russian rocket bodies from the 90's are out there...

https://www.heavens-above.com/

subject of space, what is the measurment of vac up there? Like 30hg ? Trying to figure out stress on craft up there. Like would a helium ballon be ripped to shreds

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Why is it closed?

- Peter.

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2000 GMC Sonoma
Formerly...
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

Supposedly because of damage from the Bobcat fire (remember that a few months ago ?) ~ apparently it's still burning somewhere far on the back side of the mountains .

I drove up there and you have to turn around at the Mt. Wilson cut off .

The parking lot there is jammed with parked cars from the local hikers, plenty of trails in that area .

I'm sure I could squeeze through the barricades on my Motocycle but the older I get the less I risk getting tickets and Forest Rangers these days are not the friendly guys they were in the 1950's.....

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-Nate
1982 240D stripper 393,000 miles
1984 300CD KEEPER ! 481,XXX miles
1984 Euro 300TD Fully optioned SWMBO's
1974 350SLC 4 speed SOLD & missed
Kooky Kommie Ural Motocycles (3)
BMW Moto R60/6 Barn Find, 8,000miles
1959 VW #113 DeLuxe Beetle, 36hp engine, stock
Junk, Rust, Arthritis, Crushed Spine,Broken Neck, Back & arm, lots of screws, pins & plates .
Memories, Peace Of Mind
facts & reality don't change because you can't handle them