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Credit & Copyright: Antonio
Finazzi
Explanation:
Shared
around world in early April skies
Venus, our brilliant evening star,
wandered across the face of the lovely Pleiades star cluster.
This timelapse image follows the path of the inner planet during the
beautiful conjunction showing its daily approach to the
stars of the Seven Sisters.
From a composite of tracked exposures made with a telephoto lens,
the field of view is also appropriate for binocular equipped
skygazers.
While the star cluster and planet were easily seen with the naked-eye,
the spiky appearance of
our sister
planet in the picture is the
result of a diffraction pattern produced by the camera's lens.
All images were taken from a home garden in Chiuduno, Bergamo,
Lombardy, Italy, fortunate in good weather and clear
spring nights.
Notable APOD Submissions:
Gallery
of Venus passing in front of the Pleiades
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Venus - pleiades
Publications with words: Venus - pleiades
See also:
- APOD: 2025 March 5 Á Seven Sisters versus California
- A Conjunction of Crescents
- APOD: 2025 January 27 Á Pleiades over Half Dome
- APOD: 2024 December 9 Á Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster
- APOD: 2024 September 29 Á Seven Dusty Sisters
- APOD: 2024 September 3 Á Quarter Moon and Sister Stars
- APOD: 2024 January 29 Á The Pleiades: Seven Dusty Sisters