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Four Planets

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter… and Earth at the bottom!  
Captured tonight, shortly after sunset.
I caught them closest together on May 26, when I caught them in a time-lapse video, hosted on +YouTube: http://youtu.be/p2NibPZtsQs
The video is best switched to 1080p resolution and viewed full screen.  Shot at nearly 400mm focal length, in the video you can actually see that the planets are round, and not points of light, like the stars appear to be.

The planets are now moving apart, but it happens slowly, so you should be able to see them in a line like this in the coming evenings, about 45 to 60 minutes after sunset. 

This photo is best viewed large, in the higher resolution I uploaded it in (you can click on the picture to see a larger copy).
#astronomy #astrophotography #planetconjunction  

Four Planets: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Earth

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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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