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                              2019 November 28

                        Moon and Planets at Twilight
                   Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek

   Explanation: This week's ongoing conjunction of Venus and Jupiter may
   have whetted your appetite for skygazing. Tonight is the main course
   though. On November 28, a young crescent Moon will join them posing
   next to the two bright planets above the western horizon at twilight.
   Much like tonight's visual feast, this night skyscape shows a young
   lunar crescent and brilliant Venus in the western evening twilight on
   October 29. The celestial beacons are setting over distant mountains
   and the Minya monastery, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan,
   China, planet Earth. Then Mercury, not Jupiter, was a celestial
   companion to Venus and the Moon. The fleeting innermost planet is just
   visible here in the bright twilight, below and left of Venus and near
   the center of the frame. Tomorrow, November 29, the crescent Moon will
   also help you spot planet Saturn for desert.

                Tomorrow's picture: extreme shrimp cocktails
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