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Jon Greif
Julian, CA, USA
05/21/2020
08:00 pm

Equipment Details:

Astro Tech AT72EDII 72 mm refracting telescope, ZWO ASI533MC Pro color camera, SkyWatcher AZ-GTI Equatorial Modified Mount.

Post-processing Details:

Pixinsight 1.8.8

Image Details:

Last night's conjunction between Venus (upper right) and Mercury. The closest in to the sun planets were even closer and more spectacular in real time -- happening again tonight, right after sunset (and not to be missed!) in the Western sky where the sun sets. Yellow tinge to the planets is real -- combination of the setting sun, and smoke from a controlled Cal Fire burn in our Julian neighborhood.

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