The planets Venus and Jupiter put on a show in the sky this morning as sunrise approached. As seen from earth, these two bright planets appeared to pass within 0.3 degrees of each other in the sky. For a closer shot I used a crop sensor camera to get a little more effective zoom out of my lenses, and at 640mm equivalent focal length I was able to resolve four of Jupiter's moons!
I uploaded a wider shot to Flickr, and placed it in the Universe Today group, and moments later +Universe Today had already blogged it. Thanks +Nancy Atkinson! Here's their article:
Spectacular Venus-Jupiter Conjunction Graces the Dawn
http://www.universetoday.com/113980/astrophotos-spectacular-venus-jupiter-conjunction-graces-the-dawn/
You can see more of my photos from this even in my blog post: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2014/08/venus-saturn-conjunction-at-dawn-today.html
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Venus conjunction with Jupiter before dawn on Monday, August 18, 2014.
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GREAT PICTURE....
Awesome!
Thank You for sharing this.
Wonderfull photograph,thank you for sharing this
Ok so I wasn't just seeing things this morning. I haven't seen them so bright before or close together.
Like it very nice
Like it very nice
Good work and great view
Awesome view:)
Wow!!! Beautiful