Spica is on the upper left, Venus is the very bright thing below it and to its right, and Mars is on the upper right, just to the right of the center top of this image . The three of them make an almost perfect right triangle.
I was able to take thirty-three images of tonight's trio between 8:18 PM and 8:37 PM, but because of the way I combine images to make composites, I was not able to use any where the sky was too light. Here is a composite of seventeen images from 8:26 PM through 8:35 PM:
Combining these images brightens them considerably. Here is a similar crop of one of the earliest images in this series, from 8:27 PM:
Venus soon sank below where I could reliably get a bead on it, and I had to change my position to get any more images. Here is my final shot of the night, taken at 8:37 PM, just as both Venus and Mars were about to slip beneath rooftops.
Tomorrow Venus and Spica will make their closest approach, and then they too will move apart.
Jack Horkheimer would have loved this.
Combining these images brightens them considerably. Here is a similar crop of one of the earliest images in this series, from 8:27 PM:
Venus soon sank below where I could reliably get a bead on it, and I had to change my position to get any more images. Here is my final shot of the night, taken at 8:37 PM, just as both Venus and Mars were about to slip beneath rooftops.
Tomorrow Venus and Spica will make their closest approach, and then they too will move apart.
Jack Horkheimer would have loved this.
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