Our Saturday morning dawned partly cloudy, somewhat spoiling our view of the
first day of the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, but as compensation we
were treated to a bright meteor. Judging from its direction, it could
have been a very late Lyrid. Jupiter is at magnitude -2.15 and Venus at
-4.10, and according to my planetarium software, are separated by 30' 17".
That means that the Sun or the Moon would fit almost exactly between the two!
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