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Astro Bob: Tips on photographing bright moon-planet conjunctions – Duluth News Tribune
“Astro” Bob King is a freelance writer for the News Tribune. Read more of his work at astrobob.areavoices.com.
We had just enough breaks in the clouds to enjoy the Mars-moon conjunction last night. I loved seeing the color contrast between the two celestial bodies, something you can really only appreciate when theyre close together. The moon will be near the Red Planet again tonight but about a fist fist to its left or east.Did you know that the moon will be in conjunction with another planet tonight? It passes just 3.5° below distant Uranus, which is 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) or 38 times farthe…
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