| Wednesday, February 8 was an exceptionally warm day but with high clouds drifting around all day. The evening scene was marred by intermittent high and medium clouds, which degraded but did not prevent us from getting a view of the two brightest planets closing toward their March 1 conjunction. Compare this view with that of February 3. Here we see both Venus and Jupiter still considerably south of the ecliptic, with Venus being magnitude -3.94 and Jupiter clocking in at magnitude -2.20, and a separation of 21° 35' 04" at the time of the picture. Jupiter has now moved into the upper right corner of Cetus, where it will be for a short while before going back into Pisces. |