12-22-2020, 02:46 AM
(12-22-2020, 01:36 AM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote:(12-22-2020, 01:32 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote:(12-22-2020, 01:14 AM)Schmoe1 Wrote: Well I'm glad some got to see it. If the article I read had any merit, it's a once-in-7-lifetimes experience. Oh well, I'll have to wait for it to be cloudy yet again I'm sure for the Perseids and Leonids showers.
Was sent these from a coworker.
Good catch. He/she must have caught it from a different angle than me. From my point of view Saturn was almost directly behind Jupiter. It looked like one BIG "star". Thus why it was named the Star of Bethlehem.
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It looks like it was taken through a telescope, which magnified the gap etween the two planets beyond what you can see with just your eyes or an unmagnified camera.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’