Thursday, August 12, 2010

A gathering of planets

This evening four planets (Venus, Mars, Saturn and Mercury)and the Moon bunched together in the western sky - a conjunction. I had a front row seat for the presentation, being atop Mount Lemmon hoping to get some shots of the Persied meteor shower peaking tonight. If I don't succeed in the later - the show in the early evening was reward enough.



3 comments:

Melinda said...

Why David, I see 5 (count 'em, five) planets visible in these pictures! Can you find the fifth one too? ;)
{{{hugs}}}
Melinda

Unknown said...

Earth? :-) Cute!

jane coppola said...

that is really something!