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Helio Vital
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
09/03/2020
06:15 pm

Equipment Details:

Nikon CoolPix P900 camera

Image Details:

Mercury returning to evening twilight.

Mercury was very easily visible to the unaided eye, shining at magnitude -0.5 and only 4° above the horizon.

Only 0.6° above it was Beta Virginis, a 3.6-magnitude star. The images show them
setting behind a building some 300 meters away.