Cool! I’ve seen all the planets with my telescope!
This morning when I got to work there were a lot of news trucks parked on the street by my office. Usually this happens after earthquakes, but I knew nothing big had happened last night. But then I found out they were all there to visit Planetary Science because the news had come down that Pluto had been de-listed as a planet.
But the bright side of this is: Back in 1997, when my friend and I attempted to see all the planets in one night, we actually succeeded. We just didn’t know it at the time.
August 25th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
Hehe.
Oh, and your code told me “FU”.
August 29th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
Oh those good-ole days of free-wheeling round Pluto …bet they’re gonna take down the Off-Ramp and EXIT sign soon enough.
But Do try the Parti-Viewer for your next trip!
September 1st, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Stan,
In your linked article you mentioned eight and a half planet. Did you ever verify whether one of the three faint stars you sketched was pluto?
Steve
September 4th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
As I recall, we were never sure. The problem was that Pluto was in a region of the sky that had *lots* of mag 13 stars, so the next month we weren’t even sure we had the same field.