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[quote=Ann post_id=329596 time=1678038065 user_id=129702]
Venus and Jupiter from my balcony on March 2 2023.jpg


This is anything but a good-quality image, but...Venus and Jupiter from my balcony!

Ann
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aw Ann! It's a great photo!

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This is anything but a good-quality image, but...Venus and Jupiter from my balcony!

Ann

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these these are beautiful!

[quote=FLPhotoCatcher post_id=329589 time=1678007975 user_id=139392]
Great photo!
It was cloudy here when they were closest together.
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Cloudy for me, too, on the night when they were a half degree apart. But the next night was clear, and they were still only a degree apart, which is within a telescopic field... not common for planetary conjunctions.
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Great photo!
It was cloudy here when they were closest together.

Here's how Jupiter and Venus looked here tonight in TN, USA. The foreground was lit by an almost full moon behind me.
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[quote="Donald Pelletier" post_id=329584 time=1677995195 user_id=125312]
there is another bright spots near the horizon. Someone knows what it is?
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Nice APOD.

Tell me though, Donald Pelletier, aren't you the one who has uploaded a lot of astroimages to Wikimedia Commons, where people like med looking for pictures of galaxies, nebulas etc. can freely copy them and use them as illustrations in posts I make here?

If you are the one who has uploaded and given away a lot of images to Wikimedia Commons, then I really want to thank you!

Ann

It is a lighthouse signalling an islet

there is another bright spots near the horizon. Someone knows what it is?

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