SUNSET: 
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Photographer:
Markus-Mugrauer
Location of Photo:
Groszschwabhausen
Date/Time of photo:
2. March 2025
Equipment:
Canon 90D, f=22mm
Description:
The evening sky above the western horizon, taken on 2 March 2025 at 19 CET. The image shows the two planets closest to the Sun, Mercury and Venus, approx. 4 and 17 degrees above the horizon. Above them is the waxing moon, illuminated to approx. 10%, whose dark side is brightened by the Earthshine and can therefore be observed (Moon’s ashen glow). Like the Moon, Venus also appeared in the telescope that evening as a thin crescent only about 13% illuminated. In the following days, Venus ends its visibility as ‘evening star’ and finally reaches its inferior conjunction with the Sun on 23 March. After this, Venus quickly becomes visible again in the morning sky as a ‘morning star’.
