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While Jupiter is appearing in the east, theres a pageant of planets coming & going in the west. This animation goes from tonight to the 10th of April 2015, and shows a western view for the latitude of Brisbane, at 7:15 pm AEST. The animation starts at the end of civil twilight in December, but by April, this time is just after the end of astronomical twilight. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Uranus are involved, and as the months go by, the Moon repeatedly passes its more distant neighbours. The final frame shows Venus close to the Pleiades star cluster in Taurus. View or download in HD for the best view, and pause the video to study the several conjunctions that occur. For those with telescopes, Uranus has a couple of close encounters a week apart in early March, with Venus and Mars.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:37:22 +0000

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