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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Moon, Venus and Jupiter

The night sky's been pretty spectacular this weekend: on Friday, the moon, Venus and Jupiter in a long, straight row, but the moon set very early. It wasn't around long enough to photograph well, but we tried anyway..

Last evening, we sat up on the terrace with tripod all set up and torch handy, camera pointed up at the sky. The moon and Venus were there early. It took Jupiter another 15 minutes or so. I have to say we didn't catch sight of Mercury but maybe we just didn't recognise it.

So here are the (rather patchy) results of our stargazing.

Saturday, 25.2.2012. Moon, Venus and Jupiter, slightly over-exposed.

Saturday, 25.2.2012. M, V &J against the Madhapur lights.

Friday, 24.2.2012. The Moon, somewhere at the bottom, has almost set.