Science Venus is super amazing bright just look at the Moon

[Cheshire_Kat]

This is where I live, and trust me I've tried.
But thank you very much for the effort. I do appreciate it

 

[tryptakid]

This is where I live, and trust me I've tried.
But thank you very much for the effort. I do appreciate it

I've never been there. Have been watching the show ER recently and it makes me want to visit. I've been to Detroit a bunch but never Chicago, need to find a reason to go.

Pretty Skyline but I'm sure it makes stargazing quite difficult.

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

I've never been there. Have been watching the show ER recently and it makes me want to visit. I've been to Detroit a bunch but never Chicago, need to find a reason to go.

Pretty Skyline but I'm sure it makes stargazing quite difficult.

sadly, very true...

 

[emkee_reinvented]

I've used the 'star maps' app for years. I started back when I got into watching meteor showers. I like it because it tells me what everything is that I'm seeing. Satellites, the regent of meteor showers, constellations, planets, some other stuff I don't understand. I like that it moves with you as you move your phone and that you can pause that and move it manually as well.

August i believe is notorious in EU,m but we are in the fog now.

 

[neversickanymore]

So Jupiter is in the East and Venus is in the West.. so i think i misidentified by flipping them.

 

[rentedbythehour]

This is where I live, and trust me I've tried.
But thank you very much for the effort. I do appreciate it

All I can say is Adler Planetarium. Weds open late, free for residents

Adler at Night - Adler Planetarium

Join us every Wednesday night from 4:00 pm–10:00 pm for Adler at Night at Chicago's planetarium, free for Illinois Residents!

www.adlerplanetarium.org

 

[rentedbythehour]

August i believe is notorious in EU,m but we are in the fog now.

The perseid meter shower is in August. That's probably the most famous meteor shower. We've already had one this year. Now there's a break until April. After that there's at least one going on every month thru the end of the year. There can be one, two, sometimes even 3 going on at the same time. If you look up meteor showers 2025 you can figure out the best ones to watch.

 

[Electrum1]

Has anyone been able to see the comet that's been around? They've said it's the brightest comet of 2025. I haven't been outside at night (too cold) but I would like to catch it before it's gone.

I guess it's visible from the southern hemisphere and not here

 

[JackARoe]

You guys are lucky to live where you can actually star watch, where I live there is so much light pollution even the finest of telescopes would yield poor visibility.

I am 80 miles from NYC. But also by a few observatory's. Being right in the city would make it tough.

I like the planets, stars, and galaxies. I am not much of a meteor shower guy. Although one year long ago, I was suffering through a period of cluster headaches. I had woken up from my third time in the night this one night. It was 4:30 AM and I had so much pain in my head. Like someone stabbing my temple with an ice pic. I hung my head out the window to throw up. Then I looked up and saw one of the most fullest meteor showers I’ve ever seen. I remember that pretty clearly and from there, my cluster headaches eventually went away forever. They got less and less until no more.

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

All I can say is Adler Planetarium. Weds open late, free for residents

Adler at Night - Adler Planetarium

Join us every Wednesday night from 4:00 pm–10:00 pm for Adler at Night at Chicago's planetarium, free for Illinois Residents!

www.adlerplanetarium.org

You do realize that Adler is a museum not an observatory right? The shows there are computer software generated displays of lights that are projected; not physical observations like when you actually look through a telescope or even binoculars. Alasdair and I already can duplicate the Adler shows at home using apps similar to what Adler's 1/2 hour shows do, but in real time that can optionally use heads up overlays to enhance the identification of the planets and stars, including deep space objects.

That being said I have brought my children and grandchildren to Adler because it is a learning experience that we all can share together as a family.

 

[rentedbythehour]

You do realize that Adler is a museum not an observatory right? The shows there are computer software generated displays of lights that are projected; not physical observations like when you actually look through a telescope or even binoculars. Alasdair and I already can duplicate the Adler shows at home using apps similar to what Adler's 1/2 hour shows do, but in real time that can optionally use heads up overlays to enhance the identification of the planets and stars, including deep space objects.

That being said I have brought my children and grandchildren to Adler because it is a learning experience that we all can share together as a family.

I've spent a total of 48 hours in Chicago in my life. I didn't know it was a museum. I just wanted to see if there was an observatory or planetarium there that might have a place for watching the sky. I haven't been to one since high school (back in the early 90s).

 

[rentedbythehour]

I guess it's visible from the southern hemisphere and not here

Ah that sucks. I have only seen headlines about it being the brightest comet and how it was only discovered last year

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

I've spent a total of 48 hours in Chicago in my life. I didn't know it was a museum. I just wanted to see if there was an observatory or planetarium there that might have a place for watching the sky. I haven't been to one since high school (back in the early 90s).

Yeah The Adler Planetarium show is a simulation not an observation, just so you know. Also, although entrance to museum is free on certain days the shows always need special tickets which are $32.00 per adult person for the 1/2 hour show.

 

[Electrum1]

Ah that sucks. I have only seen headlines about it being the brightest comet and how it was only discovered last year

It possibly only coming by once every 160,000 years makes it even more disappointing that we can't see it

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

It possibly only coming by once every 160,000 years makes it even more disappointing that we can't see it

This ^^^

 

[Electrum1]

The one in 2021 was cool to see. C/2021 A1 (Leonard). We discovered it in January 2021. Was clearly visible by eye from the country and had an 80,000 year orbit then disintegrated after it went by, so we were the last to ever see it

| EarthSky

earthsky.org

 

[nznity]

Aka as Lucifer

 

[rentedbythehour]

Yeah The Adler Planetarium show is a simulation not an observation, just so you know. Also, although entrance to museum is free on certain days the shows always need special tickets which are $32.00 per adult person for the 1/2 hour show.

Wow. That website is very misleading

 

[emkee_reinvented]

The perseid meter shower is in August. That's probably the most famous meteor shower. We've already had one this year. Now there's a break until April. After that there's at least one going on every month thru the end of the year. There can be one, two, sometimes even 3 going on at the same time. If you look up meteor showers 2025 you can figure out the best ones to watch.

I liked Hale-Bop when it passed 1997. Amazing how visual it was, with its tail.

 

[JackARoe]

I liked Hale-Bop when it passed 1997. Amazing how visual it was, with its tail.

I remember Hale Bop. Didn't that cult Heaven's Gate ride out on that comet when they committed suicide? That was the intent. I did see that comet and it was visual. I also remember, at least talking about it in school, comet Kehotec.