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The connection of Venus and mercury in the lake

Added	Sun, 24/05/2020
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Sat, 23/05/2020
Версии	The heavenly bodies

This charming picture was taken on may 21 after sunset, Venus and mercury were in the connection in the Western part of the sky.

David Blanchard took this photo from Flagstaff Arizona (USA). He said that mercury and Venus separated by only one degree, cast parallel light reflection on the surface of the lake upper lake Mary.

However, soon the view will only get better — may 23 and 24 to the planets, join a thin Crescent moon, resulting in a heavenly triangle.

What a beautiful celestial phenomena we can observe in these days? As we reported earlier, in the high latitudes of the Northern hemisphere finally kicked off the season of noctilucent clouds. Specializing in this phenomenon, the satellite AIM was fixed cloud on may 17.

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