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Young Moon Meets Evening Star

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Now appearing as planet Earth's evening star, brilliant Venus shines in western skies at twilight. Standing above a rugged horizon and warm sunset colors, the twilight's celestial beacon was joined last Saturday by a Moon 35 hours young in this gorgeous skyscape. The close pairing of Venus and Moon is known as a conjunction. Not [...]

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Moon and Venus at Dawn

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Brilliant Venus and a thin crescent Moon stood together above the eastern horizon just before sunrise on June 30. The lovely celestial pairing is captured in this colorful twilight skyview overlooking a reservoir near Izmir, Turkey. For some, the close conjunction could be viewed as a daylight occultation. While Venus is nearing the end of [...]

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Crescent Venus and Moon

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There's something behind these clouds. Those faint graceful arcs, upon inspection, are actually far, far in the distance. They are the Earth's Moon and the planet Venus. Both the Moon and Venus are bright enough to be seen during the day, and both are quite capable of showing a crescent phase. To see Venus, which [...]

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Venus, Mercury, and Moon

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Earlier this month, Venus and Mercury climbed into the western twilight, entertaining skygazers around planet Earth in a lovely conjunction of evening stars. Combining 8 images spanning April 4 through April 15, this composite tracks their progress through skies above Portsmouth, UK. Each individual image was captured at 19:50 UT. The sequential path for both [...]

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Crescent Moon Handheld Casio Exilim Celestron C5

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I took this video with a Casio Exilim pocket digicam handheld over a 26mm eyepiece and through a Celestron C5 telescope. The Moon was in crescent phase and several important craters are visible. Celestron, NexStar 5SE XLT, 5 inch, Moon, craters, Universe, Astronomy, Astrophotography, Astrophoto, Astrovideo, Backyard, Telescope, Live video, Space, Science, 2011, videos, urban, [...]

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Discovery in Twilight

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As evening twilight faded on March 7, sky gazers around planet Earth enjoyed a beautiful pairing of young crescent Moon and brilliant planet Jupiter. Along with stars setting in the west, the two bright celestial beacons, Moon above and Jupiter below, leave short trails in this well-planned time exposure, a composite of 54 individual frames [...]

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Hong Kong Sky

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This remarkable scene combines multiple exposures recorded on the evening of January 18th from a waterside perspective in Hong Kong, China. It follows a young crescent Moon, with brilliant planet Jupiter to its left, as they set together in the western sky. Their two luminous trails are faintly paralleled by trails of background stars. But [...]

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