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Venus and Jupiter Conjunction Today

The planets Venus and Jupiter put on a show in the sky this morning as sunrise approached.  As seen from earth, these two bright planets appeared to pass within 0.3 degrees of each other in the sky.  For a closer shot I used a crop sensor camera to get a little more effective zoom out of my lenses, and at 640mm equivalent focal length I was able to resolve four of Jupiter's moons!

I uploaded a wider shot to Flickr, and placed it in the Universe Today group, and moments later +Universe Today had already blogged it.  Thanks +Nancy Atkinson!  Here's their article:

Spectacular Venus-Jupiter Conjunction Graces the Dawn
http://www.universetoday.com/113980/astrophotos-spectacular-venus-jupiter-conjunction-graces-the-dawn/

You can see more of my photos from this even in my blog post: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2014/08/venus-saturn-conjunction-at-dawn-today.html
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Venus conjunction with Jupiter before dawn on Monday, August 18, 2014.

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  1. The time will be more or less the same in your local time zone +Maddy Brown.   You can look up your local moon rise time in a free program like +The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) on a PC.  If your horizon isn't exactly level you may see it cross your apparent horizon maybe 10 – 15 minutes later, then Venus will join a short while after that.  

    For smartphones you can buy a copy of TPE for iOS or Android, or +PhotoPills for IOS.  You can actually correct for the apparent horizon using those programs to predict when you'll see the moon, to within a minute or two.  Other programs like Star Walk and SkySafari focus on comprehensive views of the night sky, and you can dial them forward in date and time to see celestial objects rise and set, or you can select the objects to see rise times (for a zero degree horizon elevation):
    PhotoPills: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photopills/id596026805?mt=8&uo=4&at=10ldnC
    The Photographers Ephemeris: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-photographers-ephemeris/id366195670?mt=8&uo=4&at=10ldnC
    StarWalk:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/star-walk-5-stars-astronomy/id295430577?mt=8&uo=4&at=10ldnC
    SkySafari 4+: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skysafari-4-plus/id766939884?mt=8&uo=4&at=10ldnC

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