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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Conjunction Triad: Moon, Venus, Earth

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By getting up bring-n-early Monday the 17th, I was able to capture the conjunction of three beautiful objects in space: 1) Crescent Moon, 2) Venus, 3) Earth. Well, my close proximity to that last one -- my own planet -- makes it so that I could only show a relatively small piece. So I chose a picturesque section to represent Earth: Mount Hood, silhouetted by the coming sunrise.

Although the triad is lovely, showing all of the members together required a low-detail wide shot. Here is the mountain by itself, in all its glory:

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And, here is a close-up of the Moon and Venus:

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An hour later, the last member of the triad -- Earth -- dominated the sky by turning it bright blue. ;-)

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