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Subject Where are the bright "stars" you could see some time ago in the evening?

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Original Message Here they are - Venus and Jupiter in the morning twilight.

(Not the best photos (a little blurry) - close to the horizon, very bad seeing and fairly windy)

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If you know where to look, the waxing crescent Venus is easy visible with small binoculars short before sunrise.
(It's very close to the sun - take care, that you don't accidently hit the sun! You will burn your eyes!)

Venus is almost as bright now as it was in the evening sky.
But none of the Venus-doomtards (crying one month ago "Venus is coming closer and closer and it's getting brighter and brighter") will get out of bed at 4 in the mornig.
And thus Venus quietly and almost unnoticed makes its way (as it did since millions of years) until in autumn 2013 the a new generation of Venus-doomtards (or some ald ones close to Alzheimer's disease) start crying again "Venus is coming closer ..."

Jupiter rises about 30 minutes earlier and is also easy visible with small binoculars.

Magnification of the two planets is the same.
Venus at a distance of ~48 million kilometers at -3.75 mag.
Jupiter at a distance of ~880 million kilometers at -1.58 mag.

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