Credit: Imelda B. Joson and Edwin L. Aguirre
In this cropped photo taken by Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre on February 20, Venus appears as a brilliant “star” on the left, with dimmer Mars above it.…Read More » Note the nice “earthshine” illuminating the moon’s dark side. Although the trio looked close together as viewed along our line of sight, the celestial bodies were actually situated far apart in space. Venus was 134 million miles from Earth at the time, while Mars was 203 million miles away. The moon was much, much closer — a “mere” 225,000 miles away. Imelda and Edwin used a Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera at the prime focus of a Takahashi FC-60 refractor to capture this winter scene. Less «
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