Venus, Jupiter and the Moon

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Very cosmic Infidel_08!!
Thank you for the heads up,...literally!

It was really clear last night and we noticed these as well... tonight is supposed to be the closest grouping - well worth a look just after dusk...

If you live in the southwest, should you look straight up?

Pretty cool to see them that close together.
Although in reality Venus is 90 million and Jupiter is 540 million miles from the moon!

Awesome. Unfortunately I couldn't capture it well with the camera. Just looks like 3 blurry dots, although it was very clear to the eye.

Again, a clear night tonight (12/29; I'm 8-11 hours ahead of most of you). The three are almost in line again, but this month, Venus is much higher in the sky.



Barely visible in this picture is Jupiter, so I added a closer vier.




Between and below the moon and Jupiter (and too faint to photograph when I finally got my camera set up) is Mercury. This was the first time I actually knew I was looking at Mercury. EarthSky.org has a write-up.

Get out to view it in the southwest sky just after the sun sets.