The Moon and Jupiter Venus rising over Cork city on Friday night..
(Thanks Barry Higgins)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa8mRSeDbok&feature=player_embedded
Over the next month keep an eye on Venus-Jupiter planetary duo as they quickly begin to converge in the sky. This weekend the two will be separated by about 23 degrees; by the end of the month it will be half that, and by mid March they will be less than 3 degrees. That’s equal to the width of your three middle fingers held at arms’ length!
Mmf.
Thanks Karl Woodhouse
Jupiter with Io and Ganymede taken from Barbados by UK astronomer Damian Peach.
Winner of The Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual Astronomy Photographer Of The Year Competition.
See all the winning entries here.