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Moon, Mars, Venus Setting Over Mount Whitney Here's another photo of the Moon - Mars- Venus conjunction setting over Mt Whitney in "blue hour" twilight light a couple of weeks ago.  Astronomer Philip Plait has a nice write-up on the event his Bad Astronomy blog on Slate, which features the time-lapse video I created:  http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/03/08/moon_mars_venus_sunset_appulse_video.html The moon was actually in a thin crescent phase, but being positioned towards the sun, as seen from the moon the sun was illuminating a nearly "full earth", which provided a lot of "earth shine" to illuminate the portion of the moon's face not directly lit by the sun.  It's a pretty cool phenomenon to see, best seen a couple of days before or after the new moon, when the moon is close to the horizon in morning or evening twilight.   I anticipated this alignment with Mount Whitney using The Photographer's Ephemeris , as I did a moon ris...

Bright Green Geminid Meteor Over Topaz Lake This was captured during the Geminid meteor shower last night.  The Geminid meteor shower produces a lot of meteors, but not as many fireballs as the Perseid meteor shower.  This is a particularly bright one. #Geminids #meteorshower #science #astronomy #breakingnews #sciencesunday #scienceeveryday   #starrynights   #nightphotography   #astrophotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com