two bugs

[ElPelado]

the first on is this: im on earth surface, i look to the sun, and i also see some planets, how can this be possible? i should not be able to see nothing more than the sun.


and the second: why on this ecplipse i see part of the sun and no just the moon?
i read that the moon is going out from us, but what i see on this ecplise will happen in more than 100 years from now, so whats happening here?

[granthutchison]

The eclipse of June 2002 was an annular eclipse - that's how it's supposed to look!
Around half of all solar eclipses look like this (including the one that'll occur next month), because they happen at times when the moon is just a little too far from the Earth to cover the whole solar disc.

Grant

[ElPelado]

ok, but what about the first bug?

[Guest]

You can see Venus in the daytime, if you know where to look. There were a couple of days in the spring of 1999 when the Moon first passed right by Venus, and then was twice as far from the Sun as Venus. On those days I could easily locate Venus; but I've never been able to without the Moon for guidance.

Of course, it would be a lot easier if there were labels in the sky.

[Ken_g6]

Doh! That was me, but for some reason I wasn't auto logged-in.