Friday, September 17, 2010

APOD 1.3

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"Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus" is a fascinating photo taken from Spain, which shows, during daylight hours, the moon and Venus extremely close together (from our point of view). This photo is interesting as it gives a scale of what we see, showing the birds as closest, then clouds, and then through space to the mean, and even further out to Venus. What is also interesting is that Venus is close enough to the earth, and so bright that it is visible during the day. "Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus" puts everything on an interesting scale, showing all that is observable from Venus to the birds flying right over the photographers head.

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