5 Planet Alignment: 5:30AM, 20 Jan - 20 Feb 2016

[DELETED ACCOUNT]

Hold onto your butts, we're in for a treat tomorrow morning!

Planterary alignment to offer view of five bright planets at once

Sounds easy to spot, too:

Tips

• The alignment will be visible to the naked eye from 20 January from 5.30am-5.45am AEDT until 20 February 5am-6am AEDT.
• Hold your arm up in a straight line from the horizon to the moon and the planets should fall along that line.
• Try to find a flat horizon and a dark sky.
• Don’t give up! It may take more than one early morning to see the full alignment.

[ThunderIdeal]

Each planet is brighter or dimmer at given times for the same reason the moon is but also depending on distance.

If any of those planets are approaching their most spectacular it might be a dazzling show.

[Etho]

I'm there with bells on

[GorrilaGardener]

I wish i was out bush this month so i could experience it without all the light pollution of the suburbs.

Would be epic!

[SayN]

I was expecting a doom and gloom thread...

[Etho]

was out at 4:30 and managed to line up a few

[Halcyon Daze]

I went out at 4:20 and forgot why I was there.

Edited January 20, 2016 by Halcyon Daze