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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Jupiter and Venus from Earth
NASA ^
| October 25, 2015
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 10/26/2015 8:12:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on the planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them. Pictured above in 2012, a creative photographer traveled away from the town lights of Szubin, Poland to image a near closest approach of the two planets. The bright planets were separated only by three degrees and his daughter striking a humorous pose. A faint red sunset still glowed in the background. Jupiter and Venus will be at it again this week before sunrise, passing under two degree from each other -- and even with bonus planet Mars nearby.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; jupiter; mars; mercury; science; venus
[Credit and Copyright: Marek Nikodem (PPSAE)]
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posted on
10/26/2015 8:12:40 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
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posted on
10/26/2015 8:13:44 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
How do you make a photo like that?
-JT
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posted on
10/26/2015 8:22:50 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
To: SunkenCiv; All
From Sky & Telescope Magazine...
(Venus will be the brightest, then Jupiter)
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Venus-Jupiter Conjunction This Weekend!
By: Alan MacRobert | October 22, 2015Watch three planets pirouette at dawn through patterns that change each morning.
And a fourth planet hides down below.
The two brightest celestial objects after the Sun and Moon go through a close conjunction in early dawn, about an hour before sunrise. Watch them change position daily, while Mars keeps them company. Mercury is near the horizon.
Sky & Telescope diagram
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posted on
10/26/2015 8:43:24 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: Jamestown1630
Someone stands between your camera and the object (sun, star, moon, statue, etc) and while looking through the viewfinder, or the LCD screen, you tell the person to move right/left/up/down until you have them and Click*
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posted on
10/26/2015 8:45:17 AM PDT
by
RedWing9
(Jesus Rocks Zero Sucks)
To: SunkenCiv; All
Jupiter is currently around 550 million miles from Earth, Venus 65 million, Mars 207 million, and Mercury 114 million.
source: heavens-above.com (Planets)
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posted on
10/26/2015 8:46:57 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: SunkenCiv
The epicycles are in sync.
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posted on
10/26/2015 8:48:31 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: RedWing9
I mean the size and brightness. Is it a prolonged exposure?
(I’m not very smart about photography.)
-JT
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posted on
10/26/2015 8:49:15 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
To: SunkenCiv
This is no cellphone capture. I imagine a Sony sensor, tripod, f2.0 or lower, 100 mill1meter, 3 seconds or so.
She has to stand still.
Also, there’s Photoshop layering.
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posted on
10/26/2015 9:02:18 AM PDT
by
cicero2k
To: Jamestown1630
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:19:10 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: MUDDOG
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:19:53 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: cicero2k
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:20:05 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: ETL
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:20:09 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
LOL! Thanks; I think Cicero2k gave the answer in #9. I’ve never had the opportunity to see planets from a vantage point that would give a view anything like that.
-JT
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posted on
10/26/2015 11:09:53 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
To: Jamestown1630
How do you make a photo like that?Carefully!
;^)
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posted on
10/26/2015 2:09:41 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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