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Venus and Mercury (April 9, 2023).jpg
Mercury below centre, and brighter Venus above, near the Pleiades, on April 9, 2023. This was two days before Mercury's greatest evening elongation and best appearance in the evening sky for 2023 for northern hemisphere observers. Mercury was about magnitude -0.2 this night and was obvious to the naked eye. Venus was magnitude -4.1, and was still two months away from its greatest elongation east of the Sun. The star at upper right from Mercury is Hamal, in Aries, at magnitude +2.
This is a single 1.3-second exposure with the RF28-70mm lens at 35mm and f/2.8 on the Canon Ra at ISO 100. Taken from home in southern Alberta.
This is a single 1.3-second exposure with the RF28-70mm lens at 35mm and f/2.8 on the Canon Ra at ISO 100. Taken from home in southern Alberta.
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