Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Jupiter and Venus over the Lower East Side


Venus and Jupiter have come together in what astronomers call a planetary conjunction. (I had no idea — I just cut and paste that from MSNBC.) Anyway, Shawn Chittle passed along this shot. Enjoy while you can.


Won't be able to see a Venus transit like this until 2117, which will coincide with the opening of the Second Avenue subway line.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful shot! The color transition is magical.

- East Villager

Jill said...

How did I miss that arrow shaped planet? I must look up more frequently.

Uncle Waltie said...

...which will coincide with my 250th birthday.

Marty Wombacher said...

And I thought a planetary conjunction was an STD, thanks for clearing that up! Amazing photo by Shawn!

LIBERATION said...

Great photos Sean!!!

EV Grieve said...

@Jill

It was a shooting arrow. You can always spot one in a Spielberg movie!

Anonymous said...

i am really surprised that anyone even looks up at the sky any more!

with all the new buildings going up. the streets are becoming even deeper canyons.

I-)

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous shot. And right on, predicted subway completion date. But I wonder about the rarity: seems to me I see a conjunction like that almost every month,very often with a crescent moon in the mix. Jupiter and Venus are always there, zipping round the Sun...stands to reason they'd get together more frequently.