IT
IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE to see Tom Pickett's wonderful images of the sky taken
with a nice camera from his backyard in Texas, and this image is another nice
shot showing all of the planets on view in the morning sky at the moment.
There is
in fact another planet their too, Pluto, although it is rather faint at visual
Mag +14.2. Mercury and Pluto are in conjunction at the moment in the
constellation Sagittarius, and Mercury lies near the star Pi Sagittarii.
For
31 January the ephemeris information is:
Mercury
RA 19h 10m 16.9s DEC -20 28' 54.3" Mag 0.0 Ang Diam 7.76" phase 0.45%
Pluto RA
19h 08m 57.5s DEC -20 56' 05" Mag 14.2
Sun
RA 20h 51m 54.1s DEC -17 35' 44.2" Sun rise 07:52 UT
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