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).
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Four Planets: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Earth
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Awesome work +Jeff Sullivan
How you are saying that it is Mercury, Jupiter & Venus? Which Location you took this photo?
Nice, +Jeff Sullivan . Unfortunately Jupiter is too low to the horizon for me to capture now. Darn trees!
how do I share this would like to share this……with others…such pretty pic…..
click view then you will find the share button +Mark Villalon
Thata a beautiful sky!
nagyon szép
Úžasné, chvilku jsem ale hledal Merkur.
Je to nádhera. Díky
it's a wonderful
Great shot of the sky!!! if you zoom in you can see the planets quite clearly.
awsm
Picturesque & dreamy
Thanks for a view I could not have seen from here!
Wow!! I love this thanks +Jeff Sullivan
nice
Very very beautiful
It is woderful to look at
Ou!
Bom domingo
Forgot earth…at the very bottom
I read articles predicting the event +Saravana Yuvaraj, like this one:
Memorial Day Planet Parade: See Jupiter, Mercury & Venus
http://www.space.com/21310-jupiter-venus-mercury-memorial-day.html
Venus is one of the brightest objects in the night sky, so it's the first thing you see as the sky gets darker 30-45 minutes after sunset. Then Mercury and Saturn become visible.
I also use a program StarWalk on my smartphone, and that shows a star map so I can identify objects in the sky.
I should have mentioned when I posted this that it's easier to see the planets in this picture if you click on it to see a larger copy.
I should have mentioned when I posted this that it's easier to see the planets in this picture if you click on it to see the larger copy that I uploaded. Thanks for pointing that out +Scott Mcalister.
awsomeee
Awesome"
Nice! 🙂
Awesome!
Awsm
Thank you for sharing, its an awsome photo!
bonito paisaje
Muy bella +Jeff Sullivan !
Awesome!
好美啊
Beatiful 🙂
beautiful
Thanks for sharing your amazing shots time and time again +Jeff Sullivan . This has to be my favorite thus far.
+Glen Hillman Check this out, truly beautiful;)
Thanks +Melissa Leal. I'll be able to create a time-lapse video from this night as well, but that will be some time after my book is done.
Good morning, excellent
Hi Katy b…
Good morning, excellent
José Luis
A book? Wow, that's exciting news! I look forward to seeing it +Jeff Sullivan
What a beautiful image
José Luis
Nice +Jeff Sullivan
I remember back in the mid '80s during my photo walks days at Mono Lake Tufa Reserve being called into doing the weekly star walk at South Tufa on July 4th because all the rangers and Inyo NF staff were involved with the annual fireworks (which were shot from Old Marina!) for the traffic jam on 395 from 167 to well south of 120…395 was only two lanes back then, not 4.
Above us, we had all but three planets visible, either naked eye or with the spotting scope. I had promised 7 planets at the start, and when the count stopped at 6, some wondered aloud where the 7th was. I think my reply was something to the effect of "don't look up; look down."
Watching the distant fireworks just above the Lee Vining Creek Delta and against the Sierra Nevada was fun, although more photogenic from near the Old Cemetery, where I'd captured them before.