Four Planet Alignment

[not sure]

Apparently, this has been happening for the entire month of May. I only realized yesterday. If you have clear skies where you live, a pair of binoculars and the willpower to rise half hour before dawn you should be able to see the alignment of Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Mercury, "near" the Moon.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43197198/ns/technology_and_science-space/

 

[insontis]

News to me as well.

I may just wake up early/stay up late to see this. Hoping for clear skies..

 

[AhSver]

Holy shit. Is it why the doomsday was scheduled for May?

 

[not sure]

I woke up at something past 4 am this morning. Thanks to clouds, all I saw was the Moon and one planet. I will try again tomorrow morning. However, my disappointment is great.

 

[Nixie]

You must be terribly disappointed to use a monkey!

 

[not sure]

You must be terribly disappointed to use a monkey!

It's terrible I tell you. I always wondered why they don't offer Astronomy at the universities here. Now, I know. I've never seen a Perseid's meteor shower. Clouds! Clouds! Clouds! Last year, my extended family and I stayed up late into the night to see the meteor shower and I tell you no lie, a SQUARE cloud came out of nowhere and covered that quadrant of the sky.

It's a curse.

 

[VH]

I'm curious what constellation they're in. Looks to be about a tight enough conjunction to all be in one constellation.

 

[not sure]

I'm curious what constellation they're in. Looks to be about a tight enough conjunction to all be in one constellation.

Seems to extend from Pisces to Aries.
You can draw your own sky chart here.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yoursky

 

[Flavus Aquila]

I wonder where one would have to be in the solar system to see these four planets lined up with Earth? (ie. a five planet alignment).