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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-03-02 19:23:19

Moon rising and #Venus und #Saturn setting from #Bochum, Germany, today: the 2nd image coincided with 1.0-mag.-Saturn just having become visible to the naked eye, at an elevation of 6 3/4° with a solar depression of 9 3/4°. More pictures in the album facebook.com/media/set/?vanity from image 45.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-03-03 19:03:46

While the camera still had no problem getting #Venus and #Saturn clearly this evening with the Sun 10° below the #Bochum horizon, the latter was not evident to the naked eye anymore (as it had been yesterday) at any solar depression - game over? Also the full moon rising, sadly long uneclipsed again. More pictures from this evening in facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/p

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-02-25 23:22:12

No, there is no magnificent 'planetary parade' in the evening right now as the internet shouts from everywhere but on the other hand there is also more to see than just Jupiter high in the sky - as I could confirm Wednesday from Bochum, Germany, at 51.5°N, #Venus is already a bright if rather low evening star while #Saturn and #Mercury could still be spotted above her: see facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/p for more pictures and hard numbers!

@davej@dice.camp
2025-12-23 03:08:21

Nearly missed it AGAIN! Happy #Saturnalia!

“Saturn Devouring His Son,” painted by Francisco Goya, c1820-1823. A giant, naked, disheveled god Saturn, with unkempt grey beard and long hair, clutches with both hands a smaller, also naked, but still adult-proportioned corpse, its head and right arm bitten off. He feeds the corpse’s left arm into his open maw, his bulging eyes staring directly at the viewer.

Caption: “Happy Saturnalia—May all your children be delicious.”
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-02-11 19:03:15

Origin of Hyperion and Saturn's Rings in A Two-Stage Saturnian System Instability: #Saturn