Good evening fellow stargazers!
Tonight I have some beautiful shots taken earlier this week of the Very Young Crescent Moon and the conjunction of Venus and Mars.
The
first set of photos I took on Sunday, July 11th just outside of town using a local gas
station in the foreground to give the shot of the three heavenly bodies
in the west at dusk chasing the sunset some scale. Some clouds were moving in, but I was able to capture Luna's thin crescent and tiny Mars with no problems. As you can see in one shot I was able to capture the moon through the clouds quite nicely. Venus, of course was not hard to spot at all being the 3rd-brightest celestial body after the sun and moon respectively.
The second set of photos I took two days later on Tuesday, July 13th. I was unable to capture any evening photos on the previous day due to cloud cover and one of those frequent summer showers we're infamous for here in the Carolinas. Fortunately, the conjunction itself took place on the evening of the 13th and I was able to take a couple of beautiful shots -- one background shot and one close-up shot.
As it stands right now, from out vantage point here on Earth, Venus outshines Mars by about 200 times. At the time of conjunction, Venus appears about 0.5 degrees north of Mars in the evening sky, that's roughly about same diameter of the Moon.
Hopefully clear skies will afford me the chance to capture those images for y'all later this month.
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