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Mercury, Venus, Moon & Neptune.
Mercury and Venus were next to each other this morning. On Thursday morning 6/3 Mercury, Venus, the crescent 4.6% phase Moon and Neptune will be together in the eastern sky. The map below is from SkyMapPro for 6/3 at 5:30 am DST here. Neptune is the dot above the N. Mercury is 4 degrees above Neptune. The Moon will be 381,000 km away on Thursday and Neptune 4,630,000,000 km away. That is 1.3 sec and 4 hrs 17 min at the speed of light. Binoculars will show all 4 objects.
Last edited by glenc; 02-03-2008 at 05:59 AM.
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