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Venus-Jupiter close conjunction in daylight today
The closest Venus-Jupiter approach of just under 1.5 degrees for this conjunction is this morning. I was fortunate to have sufficient gaps in some fine light cirrus cloud to view this.
Using an LVW 22 (36X and 1.8 degree FOV), the two planets were framed on either side of the FOV with the bright blue sky background. Venus was blazing bright with an obvious irregular three quarter illuminated disc. Jupiter’s disc was much fainter with the two main belts just visible.
The more interesting view was using my LVW42 (19X and 3.4 degrees FOV). Venus and Jupiter were nicely framed. Plus there was sufficient depth of field for the high floating waves of cirrus cloud to be in sharp focus. It gave the view a nice dynamic view with these floating waves of cloud passing through without blocking Venus and Jupiter.
Venus and Jupiter will have separated slightly by this evening’s twilight but will still be spectacular in the fading light
Scope: Vixen NA140SS and LVW eyepieces.
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