This
photo was recorded on February 20 from Charleston, South Carolina,
USA, planet Earth and depicts Venus, named for the Roman goddess of
love, and Mars, the war god's namesake, coming together by moonlight.
Made in twilight with a digital camera, the three second time
exposure also records earthshine illuminating the otherwise dark
surface of the young crescent Moon. Of course, the Moon has moved on
from this much anticipated triple conjunction. Venus still shines in
the west though as the evening star, third brightest object in
Earth's sky, after the Sun and the Moon itself. Seen here within
almost a Moon's width of Venus, much fainter Mars approached even
closer on the following evening. But Mars has since been moving
slowly away from brilliant Venus, though Mars is still visible too in
the western twilight.
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