Duplicating very closely their May 1989 conjunction, 24 years later Venus and
Jupiter gather low in the evening sky of late May 2013, but this time joined
by Mercury. This image was taken in West Virginia near the New River
Gorge and I used a somewhat telephoto lens, so I didn't capture any of the
stars of Taurus for context. On this evening, the magnitudes are as
follows: Venus = -3.91, Jupiter = -1.94, and Mercury = -0.75 which
means that all three are brighter than all nighttime stars except that Sirius
is brighter than Mercury.
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