Friday, November 03, 2006
Conjunction of Mars and Venus, 25 Oct.
Image Credit NASA/SOHOMars (the dot near the top lefthand side of the occultation disk) and Venus (the REALLY bright dot) were in conjunction on the 25th. Unfortunately, the only way to see them was via the SOHO LASCO C2 camera (they were covered by the occulation disk of the C3 camera) as imaged here.
Here is an animation of Venus and Mars (0.5 Mb) drawing away from each other as seen through the LASCO C2 camera.
Venus was at opposition on the 28th, the image below is the latest on the site, and Venus is not quite at opposition. Venus will reappear in the evening sky in late November.
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 7:57 am 
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