The Moon put in an appearance a little to the lower left of Mercury this evening. We were very fortunate to have cloud free skies tonight.
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By tomorrow evening, the moon will moved up to be a bit below Venus. That will look nice too.
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The background stars in the picture are part of the constellation Virgo. Porrima is magnitude 2.9, Zaniah is mag 4.0 and Zavijava is mag 3.8.
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