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Most distant visible object in the daytime sky - Venus?
Thanks to everybody's input I realized that today (10th Jan 2025) was an excellent opportunity to perform my own test as to whether Jupiter is visible to the naked eye when the Sun is still above the ...
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Polaris and Kochlab: Varying color temperature by time?
Polaris is a variable star. It is a type of star that is unstable, it expands and contracts becoming brighter and less bright. This type of star is called a "Cephid." This change in ...
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What planet is most visible naked eye all year around?
None of the planets is visible continuously. The all are sometimes aligned with the sun and lost in its glare.
This problem is worse for the planets that are nearer the sun than the Earth, so the ...
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Most distant visible object in the daytime sky - Venus?
Sirius - 8.61Ly
"I recovered Sirius with binoculars [from Zimbabwe], and twenty minutes before sunset I detected it with the naked eye"
On The Visibility of Sirius in Daylight - Henshaw, C. ...
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Most distant visible object in the daytime sky - Venus?
You can see Saturn
But the circumstances have to be damn near perfect. I’ve done it when Saturn was within a hair’s breadth of the moon (or more accurately, about an eighth to a quarter lunar diameter)...
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Most distant visible object in the daytime sky - Venus?
If you know exactly where to look, with extremely clear skies, good vision, and the right positioning, Jupiter's visible during the daytime, and is always further from Earth than Venus or the Sun.
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