Four-Body Conjunction

From top left to bottom right, Venus, Jupiter, the Moon, Mercury.

It was beautiful! And clear, fortunately. My daughter who lives down in LA had nothing but that coastal low cloud layer to look at.

Mercury got left out of the close-up, but the two-day old crescent Moon was a diamond!

Mercury is always elusive, and it’s nearing the furthest away from the Sun that it ever gets, but it’s been surprisingly easy to see this trip around into the evening sky.

Keep watching, they’ll be playing this dance for a few more days. If you don’t have clouds!

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