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- Venus and Jupiter Conjunction 2023
A photo of Venus and Jupiter close together in tonight’s sky, and a close-up that appears to have very blurry images of Jupiter’s moons.
- Venus and Mercury Again
They’re not as close as they were two nights ago, but I managed to frame them with a more interesting foreground.
- Venus and Mercury Spotted!
Venus and Mercury close together after last night’s sunset. I lucked out in that… I remembered they were going to be visible when I got to the store on the way home. The parking lot was both wide and slightly uphill from the western side of the street, giving me a clear view. The sky […]
- Venus and Jupiter Conjunction: Three Views
On June 30 2015, Venus and Jupiter lined up more closely than the edges of the moon. Here’s what they looked like that night, 2 nights later, and 10 before.
- Venus and Mars are all right tonight
There’s nothing like a conjunction to remind you just how much brighter Venus is than, well anything else in the night sky except the moon.
- Venus and Mercury, Sitting in a Tree
I’ve been watching Venus and Mercury move toward and away from each other. Tonight I caught them framed by the almost-bare branches of a tree. (Photo)
- Venus and Mercury Above the Trees (UPDATED 2x)
I walked out of the office and stopped: there, framed by the trees and the next building over, were Venus and Mercury, right in front of me.
- Planetary Triangle
Last night I had a clear view of the Mercury, Venus and Jupiter conjunction, but no camera. Power lines crossed my view tonight, but at least I got a photo.
- Missed Transit
No luck catching the transit of Venus, but hey, at least I got to see the eclipse last month!
- New Moon and Venus
- Mercurial View
I’m 90% certain that I managed to (barely) spot Mercury below and to the left of Venus from the grocery store parking lot just after sunset. Appropriately enough, the one other time I think I spotted Mercury, it was also from a grocery store parking lot. It was like trying to spot one slightly brighter […]
- Venus and Mercury!?
At the age of 34, I’ve finally seen the planet Mercury. It’s close to Venus for a few days, and I managed to spot it from a grocery store parking lot.
- Look to the Western Sky after Sunset
In a world full of airplanes and helicopters, why do people jump past mundane explanations when they see a light in the night sky and assume it’s aliens?
- Moon and Venus Above Palms
- Stellar Triangle
I managed to get a few shots of the near-conjunction of the crescent moon, Jupiter and Venus tonight before they sank into the haze. The first two shots were taken at twilight (well, dusk, really), around 5:05–5:10 PM PST, while the third was taken at 5:30, after night had fallen.
- Jupiter and Venus
This is actually from a couple of nights ago, but the view as I left the office tonight was about the same (though the lights were just starting to turn on in this picture). It’s really odd to walk out of the building into a lot that’s normally lighted (even when I head in to […]
- Deja View
Follow-ups to two past blog entries. First, remember on our most recent trip to Las Vegas (last March) we repeatedly encountered a slow-moving, hand-painted truck labeled “Henry’s Moving” on the drive out. Well, after a trip to Fry’s this past Sunday, we spotted it again. Second, for the first time in 1½ years, I managed […]
- Wow
If you haven’t already, go over and look at today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. It’s an incredible shot of the Moon and Venus during last weekend’s conjunction.
- Crescent moon and Venus
I walked out the front door last night around 5:50 to pick up the mail, and immediately walked back in to get the camera, because this is what I saw: My parents gave me a flexible mini-tripod for Christmas, and it proved very helpful here, as there was nowhere flat where I could set the […]
- Daystar!
I saw the planet Venus four times on my walk to and from lunch today! Yes, in broad daylight! Someone on Slashdot mentioned it was possible last week. I took it seriously because back in high school, I used to watch Venus fade into the brightening sky on winter mornings. Often I could still find […]
- Venus Shadows
Venus is apparently so bright this month that it’s casting visible shadows. Now that’s cool! Unfortunately, while I can see Venus perfectly well, there’s way too much light around to see anything resembling a Venusian shadow. I don’t think I’ll have a chance to drive out into the desert by sunset in the next few […]
- The Moon and Venus, sitting in a tree
This view of the Moon and Venus was taken from our apartment balcony earlier this evening. I also took a picture yesterday, from the top of a parking structure near John Wayne Airport (we went to a show at UCI later that evening.) You can see the red trail an airplane left as it crossed […]