Editing Talk:2401: Conjunction

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It appears (depending upon how keen DgbrtBOT actually is) that this was posted at the significant time as mentioned. Though it's entirely within range of usual update time, I suspect this is not a coincidence.  (Where I am, partly the weather but overwhelmingly the horizon obscured the moment of closest approach, but I did get a shufti earlier last night when there were fewer clouds in the sky for at least some of the time between sunset and planetsset. It took binoculars to key my eyes into where the dimmer Saturn was, but once I knew what I was seeing it was obvious enough.). Oh and, purely coincidentally, Happy Solstice everyone! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.160|141.101.107.160]] 00:58, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

"...if they appeared to have boinked, it would have confirmed the weak cosmological constant, which we are very glad is not a thing." [[User:Ocæon|ocæon]] ([[User talk:Ocæon|talk]]) 14:23, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

I don't think this is really that interesting (in the technical sense) to astronomers. Although in theory there could be gravitational lensing of Saturn's image by Jupiter's gravity, I'm pretty sure the effect would be too small to bother even trying to measure.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.18|108.162.241.18]] 14:49, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
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 I don't think this is really that interesting (in the technical sense) to astronomers. Although in theory there could be gravitational lensing of Saturn's image by Jupiter's gravity, I'm pretty sure the effect would be too small to bother even trying to measure.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.18|108.162.241.18]] 14:49, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
-:Astronomers might not say that, yet people might say that astronomers might say that. (Astronomers thus aren't people. And the rules require no more than three fragments of astronomer per kilo of Soylent Green before the Food Defect Action Levels are invoked.) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.176|141.101.98.176]] 15:31, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
-:The whole point of this cartoon is that lay people don't realize how boring something like this is to astronomers -- it's just a coincidence with little scientific import. But astronomers are people, too, and they can enjoy the esthetics and have fun with it. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 00:33, 24 December 2020 (UTC)