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Photographer:

mkendust

Location of Photo:

Green River Lakes area, Wyoming.

Date/Time of photo:

08/21/2017

Equipment:

Nikon D7200, Nikon 80-400 lens @ 400

Description:

2017 total eclipse and what appears to be a planet in the lower left area of frame. Could it be Venus?

Comments


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Jay Glowacki

September 6, 2017 at 3:18 pm

The lower left object is the star Regulus (Alpha Leonis).

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mkendust

September 6, 2017 at 8:27 pm

It doesn't look like a star to me. It may be hard to zoom in with this small 150 kb. file. I checked it on the full size file and it looks like a greenish blue ball with barely visible surface or cloud details. Due to the color I thought it could be Venus, but I saw an earlier eclipse photo (2008?) in this gallery with Mercury visible and it had about the same color.

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