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Old 17-11-2005, 09:44 PM
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Venus & Nunki

I was checking out Spaceweather tonight and they had this interesting article below.

VENUS AND NUNKI: When the sun goes down tonight, step outside and look south. See that star very close to Venus? That's Nunki, a blue giant 224 light years from Earth. Nunki is five times wider than the sun and 3300 times more luminous. To receive the same heat, an Earth circling Nunki would have to be located beyond the orbit of Pluto. Venus will be gliding by Nunki tonight and tomorrow.

So I have snaped an image of the trio. Venus in the middle with Nunki in the upper right and Phi Sagittarii bottom left.

Canon 300D, 400 ISO, 2 sec exp,f/5.6, at 400mm.

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