In Sapa, Vietnam

In Sapa, Vietnam

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Sharing time between Southampton and Noyal-Muzillac in southern Brittany. Sports coach, gardener, hockey player, cyclist and traveller. I studied an MA in Management and Organisational Dynamics at Essex University in 2016-17. Formerly an Operations Manager with NEC Technologies (UK) Ltd.

Sunday 21 June 2015

Great view in the western sky

Thursday walking: 3.8km
Friday walking: 3.9km
Friday swimming: 1.25km

Moles this week: 
Tim 1 (Year to date 3)
Pip 0 (Year to date 6)

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If you get a clear sky look west just after sunset, there's a remarkable conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter at present. Venus is extremely bright at magnitude -4 and is visible from just after sunset here, I had a good night with the telescope this week and Venus shows as just over half phase in the Skywatcher 150. Good views of Jupiter and Saturn (rings nicely edge on) as well in the sky - only problem is that because it's mid-summer the sky isn't dark enough for decent viewing here until after midnight and it never really gets fully dark now.

This picture credited to Ian Griffin in Dunedin, NZ.



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