Maybe the fellow was wrong himself. I've been out and about on moonless nights where it literally took a compilation of all available stars and planets along with a starlight scope to see much of anything. I think what the fellow saw was the sun and not a planet. I can qualify this based on my experience at our clubs solar events. I usually have my scope on Venus when I can find it, and many times the good people who come to look throught our telscopes are amazed when they look through mine to see that the "Sun" has a shaddow side, or is in phase. Of course who am I to try to tell them any different. ;) Quoting Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com>:

OK, Guy, you're forgiven! You still get points for diving in-there first.

So, of everyone who's run the WayBack machine, what's the consensus?

Is Jupiter the best candidate for the illuminating planet that Willis wrote about?

Guy wrote:

...

Chuck,

The information I just sent was wrong. Seems these planets were up with the sun.

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