Posted on 11/14/2023 12:44:04 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: In the fading darkness before dawn, a tilted triangle appeared to balance atop a rock formation off the southern tip of Sicily. Making up the points of the triangle are three of the four brightest objects visible in Earth’s sky: Jupiter, Venus and the Moon. Though a thin waning crescent, most of the moon’s disk is visible due to earthshine. Captured in this image on 2022 April 27, Venus (center) and Jupiter (left) are roughly three degrees apart -- and were headed toward a close conjunction. Conjunctions of Venus and Jupiter occur about once a year and are visible either in the east before sunrise or in the west after sunset. The featured image was taken about an hour before the arrival of the brightest object in Earth’s sky – the Sun.
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That is a cool picture!👍🙂
Sort of lame to post something 18 months late.
Two weeks ago I saw Jupiter at almost its brightest — it was in close conjunction with the moon and a full moon means full sunlight on both. Each night Jupiter stayed fully lit, even as the moon moved away from it. One could, with simple gun range grade telescope, see three of Jupiter’s moons too.
Do I really care about 18 months ago.
APOD is strange. It seems half the subject matter/images depict terrestrial earth in it’s images.
Very odd.
It is odd to me as well. At least this one is not by islamic or chinese photographers which is what the NASA “Outreach” program has favored recently. This outreach was implemented by barak hussein 0.
APOD and others in this realm are very woke and or leftist. Nearly always they choose images/subjects from foreign sources. I see amateur work weekly that beats many of the images they peddle.
Of course it’s a Government/NASA/university affiliate so that explains a lot.
Obviously not taken recently because Venus is now visible in the east before sunrise and Jupiter is very bright in the east in the evening.
18 months? That’s ok, still pretty cool!
There seems to be a trend for shooting landscapes with astronomical objects in the shot, twilight or night-time photography. It’s a great way to shoot the sky without using a telescope. A motorized mount can be used, and there are digital cameras out there that will let the photographer take limited timed exposures and still get nice shots of astronomical objects. The equipment is key- a camera and some sort of lens system is needed, it can be a wide angle, zoom lens, or even a telescope. There is a lot of information out there on how to get those images and what kind of equipment is needed. You can turn pictures of planets or comets into works of art. Pretty neat stuff…
It might me trendy, but you certainly don’t need to include terrestrial images of earth in the field of camera view to obtain astronomical images without a telescope.
No, you don’t.
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