Mercury, Venus, Jupiter… and Earth at the bottom!
Captured tonight, shortly after sunset.
I caught them closest together on May 26, when I caught them in a time-lapse video, hosted on +YouTube: http://youtu.be/p2NibPZtsQs
The video is best switched to 1080p resolution and viewed full screen. Shot at nearly 400mm focal length, in the video you can actually see that the planets are round, and not points of light, like the stars appear to be.
The planets are now moving apart, but it happens slowly, so you should be able to see them in a line like this in the coming evenings, about 45 to 60 minutes after sunset.
This photo is best viewed large, in the higher resolution I uploaded it in (you can click on the picture to see a larger copy).
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Four Planets: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Earth
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Awesome work +Jeff Sullivan
How you are saying that it is Mercury, Jupiter & Venus? Which Location you took this photo?
Nice, +Jeff Sullivan . Unfortunately Jupiter is too low to the horizon for me to capture now. Darn trees!
how do I share this would like to share this......with others...such pretty pic.....
click view then you will find the share button +Mark Villalon
Thata a beautiful sky!
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Úžasné, chvilku jsem ale hledal Merkur.
Je to nádhera. Díky
it's a wonderful
Great shot of the sky!!! if you zoom in you can see the planets quite clearly.