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Jupiter, Mercury and Venus to form triangle tonight!

Apparently the equilateral triangle they'll form tonight is the closest together they'll be until 2021.  They'll only be 2 degrees apart, and best viewed around 9 pm tonight on the Western horizon (near where the sun went down), about 45 minutes after sunset (now on the U.S. East Coast).  They'll remain close together for a few more evenings.  This photo is from twilight last night, around 9 pm, as they set behind the Sierra Nevada (a horizon about 2.7 degrees high from this viewing position at Mono Lake).  

UPDATE: I've posted the time-lapse and summarized my four nights of efforts to capture this event on my blog on +Blogger: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2013/05/venus-jupiter-mercury-conjunction-1080p.html
#astronomy   #planetconjunction  

Jupiter, Mercury and Venus from Mono Lake

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Jeff Sullivan

Jeff Sullivan leads landscape photography workshops in national parks and public lands throughout California and the American West.

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