Venus, Jupiter, and Mars


People in some parts of the world are, no doubt, enjoying the sight of Venus, Jupiter, and Mars all within 3 degrees of each other in recent mornings. Here in the Portland area we’ve had either clouds or thick fog every morning, so we haven’t seen it. I got up at 5:30 this morning because the forecast was for relatively clear skies. I couldn’t tell if there were any clouds – the fog was so thick that I couldn’t see my neighbor’s house!

Tomorrow morning will almost certainly be cloudy, so the only way to get a picture of this conjunction is this “screen capture” from my planetarium software. The red outline shows (approximately) how I would have framed the shot.

VJM_Conj


About Greg Marshall

I am a retired electronics engineer and after a few months of enjoying my leisure I began to miss doing product development. My astronomy hobby always needed new solutions to unique problems, so I decided that whenever I came up with a good solution I would try to make it available to others.

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