Rare Planetary Alignment - Ensoy!!

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Venus, Saturn and Mercury will line up in the night sky on Monday in a once in a lifetime sky show not seen since 1965, sky watchers have said.

According to Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre Executive Director P Iyamperumal this tight planetary alignment can be seen after sunset, in the west-north-west direction.

He said the brightest of these three planets would be Venus. A dimmer Saturn can be seen at its lower right.Mercury can be viewed to the lower left of Venus. The three planets can be seen fitting within a circle 2 degrees wide, about the size of the thumb held at arm's length.

Mercury and Venus will appear like twin planets as the angular distance between them shrinks to a mere 0.1 degrees, he said. The planet Jupiter can also be seen far away up in the sky away from these three planets in the evening sky.

That make it the fourth planet which would be visible to the naked eye.

The fifth Mars, can also be seen after the mid night, he said.

Due to this alignment, all these planets would appear as if the distance between them is the same. But this is an illusion, he said, adding Mercury is roughly 14.5 crore km away, Venus about 22.4 crore km and Saturn 149 crore km. This is about ten times farther than Mercury.