Planet Scenes July 2021


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July 10

While on a trip to Big Bend National Park to observe Herschel 400ii objects, I got a picture of Venus and Mars in the evening twilight from the bowl of the Chisos Basin, looking west toward the "window".  From a latitude of 29° north, the planets were noticeabley higher than they would be at home in Virginia.  This Venus apparition is a reprise of its 2013 apparition, that of 2005, and 1997.

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