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Credit & Copyright: Ignacio Llorens
Explanation:
February's five planet line-up stretches
across
a clear sky in this predawn scene.
A hilltop
Castell
de Burriac looms in the foreground,
overlooking the town of Cabrera de Mar near Barcelona, Spain,
planet Earth.
The
mosaicked, panoramic image looks south.
It merges three different exposure times
to record a bright Last Quarter Moon, planets, seaside city lights,
and dark castle ruins.
Seen on February 1st the Moon was near Mars on the sky.
But this week early morning risers have watched it move on,
passing near Saturn and finally Venus and Mercury, sliding along
near the ecliptic toward the dawn,
approaching the February 7 New Moon.
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