Dec 28
Venus
Venus is by far the brightest “star” in the sky these days (nights). Its magnitude is a whopping -4.5, compare that to the -1.5 of Sirius which is the brightest star in the northern hemisphere. In February they can both be seen in the evening sky for comparison, but for now I was just stunned to see Venus right after sunset. The picture is taken about 1.5 hours after sunset though.
The sunset wasn’t otherwise special, but a few mother-of-pearl clouds were a nice surprise.
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Just guess who was happy not to have his tripod with yesterday evening? ’nuff said
We had a wonderful view of both Venus and Jupiter lined up this past December. Was it the same where you live? (Finland?)
Hi Mark, I actually live in Sweden but everything is much the same as in Finland, we’re close neighbours. I missed the planet lineup, sometimes the weather just won’t co-operate!