Have been doing some "research" about comet Lovejoy C2014/Q2 (haven't found any info on the forum) and it's soon to come perihelion, and stumbled on this site https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20150130_17_100 (see image in attachment).
The perihelion itself wasn't so much interesting as was the arrangement of inner planets, so went to check if some kind of "interesting" alignment is predicted to happen on Jan 30th.
From interactive Orrery (_http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar) I got this image:
where it can be seen that not just inner planets, but Jupiter and Uranus also kind of align themselves in this "triangle" configuration.
Since astronomy isn't my forte and ephemeris don't mean much to me (at least ATM), found this site (_http://cosinekitty.com/solar_system.html) with predicted (error of 2'-3') planets' coordinates for Jan 30th (at 00:00 UT) and transformed them to spherical coordinate system (which means something to me):
Last column is azimuth angle which says about conjunctions, oppositions, ..., positions of planets in ecliptic plane.
As can be seen
(here _http://cosinekitty.com/astro_calendar.html it states that: Jan 30th Mercury in inf conj, Feb 6th Jupiter in opposition)
Mercury really aligns itself with Earth and Sun on Jan 30th (Jupiter at 10º difference at 00:00 UT) and
likewise Mars aligns with Venus and Sun at the same time (with Uranus "very close" to the line behind them, again 10º offset).
And they all sort of make 120º angle.
At the same time Saturn is at 100º-110º "below" Earth-Mercury-Sun line and Neptune 100º away from there, at cca 30º "below" Mars-Venus-Sun line. In any case, "interesting" configuration, specially WRT (Jupiter)Earth/Mercury - Sun - Venus/Mars(Uranus) triangle.
Since I'm doing some work on
http://www.sott.net/article/224062-Comet-Elenin-Harbinger-of-What
and
http://www.sott.net/article/229308-Planetary-Alignments-and-the-Solar-Capacitor-Things-are-heatin-up
thought to drop a line about this finding.
edit: style and corrected a mistake in Jupiter's position
The perihelion itself wasn't so much interesting as was the arrangement of inner planets, so went to check if some kind of "interesting" alignment is predicted to happen on Jan 30th.
From interactive Orrery (_http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar) I got this image:
where it can be seen that not just inner planets, but Jupiter and Uranus also kind of align themselves in this "triangle" configuration.
Since astronomy isn't my forte and ephemeris don't mean much to me (at least ATM), found this site (_http://cosinekitty.com/solar_system.html) with predicted (error of 2'-3') planets' coordinates for Jan 30th (at 00:00 UT) and transformed them to spherical coordinate system (which means something to me):
| Planet | r [AU] | theta [º] | phi [º] |
| Mercury | 0.326554 | 83.6593 | 126.912 |
| Venus | 0.726223 | 93.2207 | 5.2623 |
| Earth | 0.985002 | 90.0 | 129.723 |
| Moon | 0.986434 | 90.0117 | 129.597 |
| Mars | 1.39791 | 91.2566 | 6.88764 |
| Jupiter | 5.32884 | 89.228 | 137.016 |
| Saturn | 9.97887 | 87.953 | -121.842 |
| Uranus | 19.9981 | 90.6583 | 15.7613 |
| Neptune | 29.958 | 90.7523 | -22.8877 |
Last column is azimuth angle which says about conjunctions, oppositions, ..., positions of planets in ecliptic plane.
As can be seen
(here _http://cosinekitty.com/astro_calendar.html it states that: Jan 30th Mercury in inf conj, Feb 6th Jupiter in opposition)
Mercury really aligns itself with Earth and Sun on Jan 30th (Jupiter at 10º difference at 00:00 UT) and
likewise Mars aligns with Venus and Sun at the same time (with Uranus "very close" to the line behind them, again 10º offset).
And they all sort of make 120º angle.
At the same time Saturn is at 100º-110º "below" Earth-Mercury-Sun line and Neptune 100º away from there, at cca 30º "below" Mars-Venus-Sun line. In any case, "interesting" configuration, specially WRT (Jupiter)Earth/Mercury - Sun - Venus/Mars(Uranus) triangle.
Since I'm doing some work on
http://www.sott.net/article/224062-Comet-Elenin-Harbinger-of-What
and
http://www.sott.net/article/229308-Planetary-Alignments-and-the-Solar-Capacitor-Things-are-heatin-up
thought to drop a line about this finding.
edit: style and corrected a mistake in Jupiter's position
