Venus and Mercury

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Fraglerock
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Venus and Mercury

Post by Fraglerock » Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:47 pm

I took this photo during sunset in Oulton Broad Lowestoft Suffolk last night 06/08/2014 [ https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/ ... ddf471173a ]

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Re: Venus and Mercury

Post by Chris Peterson » Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:24 pm

Fraglerock wrote:I took this photo during sunset in Oulton Broad Lowestoft Suffolk last night 06/08/2014 [ https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/ ... ddf471173a ]
Not sure what you have there, but it can't be Venus (currently 21° from the Sun, and with Jupiter between the two), and it's unlikely looking at the apparent scale here that you have Mercury, either (currently 3° from the Sun). Note also that Mercury is nearly at superior conjunction, and Venus is approaching it, meaning that both planets are near full phase- not showing crescents but nearly full discs.
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