Evening Planets

Posted by Daniel K. (Austin, United States) on 7 February 2007 in Miscellaneous.

Venus (top) keeps company with the elusive planet Mercury in the evening sky, February 7th. Venus, currently 223 million kilometers away from Earth is shining brightly in the evening at roughly -4 magnitude, while tiny Mercury (141 million km distant) weighs in at -0.5 mag. The star below and to the right of Venus is Lambda Aquarii.

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