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Venus ja Merkurius - 5.1.2015 at 16.12 Tampere Observation number 32723

Visibility III / V

Tapio Lahtinen, Tampereen Ursa

Venus and Mercury converge and the closest are 10.1. whereby the distance is only 0.7 degrees.
I played it safe and photographed the convergence already now with a distance of about 1.5 degrees.


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  • Observation target
    • Conjuction of celestial bodies
  • Name of the observation target
    • Venus ja Merkurius
    • Keskitaso
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Equinox 80, Canon 550D

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