planetary alignment 2018

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This would be the picture I got today.
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Most if not nearly all Main Stream Astronomers are not calling this an alignment.
They are saying that the last such alignment was in 561 BC. (how can they be sure?) That was all the Planets.

The last time in 2016 (I think) was not all the planets but only 5 or 6 that happens about every 10 or 13 years. (Common) 

Now the next time (Roughly every 500 years) when all 8 (or 9 if you count Pluto) planets will align is in 2854. 

They also say that:

The closest the eight planets will come to being aligned will be on May 6, 2492. This image shows what you would see if you were off the coast of New York City and you looked due south at 5:10 am on May 6, 2492, as calculated by the software program Stellarium 0.13.3. As you can see, the planets are not visually sitting on top of each other, which would be the case if they were all located on a line emanating from the earth (as would be needed to maximize their net gravitational force on the earth). Furthermore, they are not even visually sitting on a line in the sky.
They are simply in the same general region of the sky. Public Domain Image, source: Christopher S. Baird.

Additionally, the five planets Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury will be in the same general part of the sky on September 8, 2040. While these planetary alignments have no effect on the earth, they can make for interesting nights for star gazers who know what to look for.
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So,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I think this month we had 5 planet on the same side of our Sun but not all 8 or 9 and not in an Alignment.