Christmas Star

[Rogue]

Christmas Star appears...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12346378

[Agartha]

  When I click on the link above it takes me here:

'Doomsday scenario': What happens if Trump refuses to leave office? - NZ Herald

[Rogue]

Lol, you're right!!!

Try this for the real story (Not some fake....)

https://astronomy.com/news/2020/12/jupiter-and-saturn-will-form-rare-christmas-star-on-winter-solstice

[TrueCrazyLion]

So the first Christmas Star link ended up linking to a story about a black hole! 

I’ll check the 2nd one out now

[TrueCrazyLion]

Just checked out the article, and coincidentally this was the first thing I saw:



OMG!

Really great article, very interesting, and I’ll try and remember to keep an eye on it closer to December 21st, especially if the nights nearer that date end up being overcast!

[Agartha]

Thank you for the real link! LOL

I hope it won't be cloudy and I'll go out to try to see the 'Christmas Star'... so, sunset will be at approx 15:39 in Scotland on the 21st. Forty five minutes after sunset, we should look 10 degrees above the South-Western horizon (this is for Scotland only, sorry but I don't know about other locations)

[Rogue]

I went out to see it tonight. I'll hold off on my review until others have had a chance to look.

[Agartha]

It was raining... I didn't even attempt to go out.

[Kaere]

It'll be my turn shortly but it's pretty overcast right now... wish me luck!

[Rogue]

Good luck!

[TrueCrazyLion]

I’m liking Google’s acknowledgement of this today:



And the sky is clear here tonight too:



So it’ll be interesting to see if I can see this tonight!

[Kaere]

You would have seen it just after sunset, Lion. Any luck?

I didn't see it, much too cloudy. I'm grateful for photographs!

[TrueCrazyLion]

Aww, I was too late then - it was already several hours after sunset when I made that post 

(Actually I now remember reading that it would be soon after sunset... Ugh!)

Nope, not seen anything myself, unfortunately :-/

Looks like I’ll need to rely on photos too!

[Rogue]

To be absolutely honest i thought it was pretty unspectcular. It looked like a star in the sky. If that was thought to be a Christmas Star, then they must of had great imaginations way back then.

[Agartha]

Rogue, other people made exactly the same comment!

[Rogue]

Great to know I wasn't the only one!

[TrueCrazyLion]

I guess in a year like this one has been, any non-Coronavirus story is enough to make the media get excited and make a bigger deal out of it than was necessary! LOL

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