Look to the southwest skies in the early evening tonight.
As I posted on the Astro Thread -- in case people don't look at that thread, and in case you haven't seen it all over news media -- here's a reminder that tonight will be a very close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter -- only ⅓ degree will be separating them in the sky. That angular distance is less than the angular width of the full Moon.
There's no astronomical significance to this...and it won't be that special photographically, unless you have a very long lens/telescope.
But if you have a long lens that can resolve a few of the moons of Jupiter -- and any telescope can do this -- seems like it would be cool to capture an image showing Jupiter-and-its-moons as well as "half-Venus"* in the same field of view.
I don't have a long-enough lens/telescope to do it justice photographically, but my naked eyes will "look to the skies" tonight...maybe with binoculars.
*Venus has phases -- just like Earth's Moon -- and currently it's a little less than half full.
As I posted on the Astro Thread -- in case people don't look at that thread, and in case you haven't seen it all over news media -- here's a reminder that tonight will be a very close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter -- only ⅓ degree will be separating them in the sky. That angular distance is less than the angular width of the full Moon.
There's no astronomical significance to this...and it won't be that special photographically, unless you have a very long lens/telescope.
But if you have a long lens that can resolve a few of the moons of Jupiter -- and any telescope can do this -- seems like it would be cool to capture an image showing Jupiter-and-its-moons as well as "half-Venus"* in the same field of view.
I don't have a long-enough lens/telescope to do it justice photographically, but my naked eyes will "look to the skies" tonight...maybe with binoculars.
*Venus has phases -- just like Earth's Moon -- and currently it's a little less than half full.
