Thursday, May 12, 2011

Six-Planet Alignment

This is cool. I've not been able to see it properly because of how early the sun is coming up now, but this should give you an idea of what's happening. This is the alignment from this morning:



The red line that the planets seem to be following is the ecliptic (path of the sun) line while the blue line is the path of the moon. Right now Mars, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter are all clustered in the heart of Pisces while Uranus is on the outer edge of it. Neptune is in between Aquarius and Capricorn while Pluto is just above Sagittarius and below Scutum.

Only Saturn is missing as it is hanging out in Virgo which would be somewhere in the Pacific at this time (being three constellations ahead of Sagittarius).

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