Triple conjunction - Venus, Jupiter & The Moon
A stunning triple conjunction graced the skies this evening. At my latitude, a gibbous Venus grazed the the moon, coming extremely close but was never eclipsed. Jupiter was a couple of degrees away forming an amazing trio. Above are a couple of photos I took of the event. One through the 200mm dobson and the other through a tripod mounted SLR.
During the conjunction, Europa entered occultation behind Jupiter as Callisto was out to the West and Io and Ganymede were paired close together to the East. It is curious to note that at that point there was a syzygy between five bodies; the Earth, the Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Europa.
Vesta continues in its movement towards Alpha Piscium. Tonight it formed a flat isoceles triangle with TYC0040-01286-1 and 112 Psc which in turn form a rough equilateral triangle with Alpha Piscium.
Labels: conjunction, earth, europa, ganymede, io, Jupiter, Moon, syzygy, Venus, vesta
posted by Albireo at 8:47 PM
3 Comments:
We got to see snow!
But one of the guys at the astronomy club meeting got out his laptop, fired up a planetarium program, hooked it up to the video projector, and we were able to see what we might have seen if we could have seen it.
Here I was lucky to have a clear sky and had just about enough time after work to set up the scope and camera.
Wow venus was so close for you!
They were not nearly that close here, but still quite a nice love triangle.
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