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So there, the closest approach of #Venus and #Jupiter on 9 June 2026 in very clear skies from Bochum, Germany - over a distant #lightning storn! Full sequence from the evening: https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid023dN778vSp7WVW2489woRWpzHRB8VrYPj8ApfqKMfbe1NLNNozbcUxFUWcx57MvoRl

The #Jupiter #Venus #Mercury view from Regensburg 5 minutes later today, with the latter 4 1/2 degrees up - soon thereafter Mercury would be lost to extinction for the naked eye.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
John Dowland, Lea Desandre, Jess Dandy, Laurence Kilsby, Alex Rosen, Jupiter Ensemble & Thomas Dunford:
🎵 Go Crystal Tears
#JohnDowland #LeaDesandre #JessDandy #LaurenceKilsby #AlexRosen #JupiterEnsemble #ThomasDunford

The #conjunction of #Jupiter and #Venus progressing: the situation on the evenings if the 1st and of the 5th of June. Four nights till closest approach!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jupiter & Okwess & Ana Tijoux:
🎵 You Sold Me a Dream
#Jupiter #Okwess #AnaTijoux
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hZJgdLvwYVXgozGt0FNF9

The planets #Jupiter (left) and #Venus and the #Gemini stars Pollux and Castor above them this evening - with the Sun 10° below and 10° above the horizon - from Bochum, Germany: exactly two weeks before the planets are closest to each other. (In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_w5MOP0yxo a one-hour documentary about this conjunction, from Austria.)

Turns out the #Jupiter apparition is swiftly coming to an end: from #Bochum I couldn't even see it naked-eye anymore this evening, while in this 'blind' photograph it is faintly visible in the lower right just where the haze begins. #Venus is now the only obvious planet in the evening.

Yeah, so I suck at #astrophotography when all I have is a handheld mobile phone camera. 🌙♀♃
#Moon #Venus #Jupiter

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
Antonio Vivaldi, Peter Whelan & Jupiter:
🎵 Bassoon Concerto in G minor, RV.495
#AntonioVivaldi #PeterWhelan #Jupiter
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gVQnoOEhDYoT8emoWFmaf

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Jupiter & Okwess feat. Rogê:
🎵 Bolingo (Ça Va Sarava)
#Jupiter #Okwess #Rogê
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mrxvkUviWsxfLyNONiZis

The planets #Jupiter #Venus #Mercury (in the gap between trees in the lower right) again, on 7 June from the #Eschenberg in the #BavarianForest where a public observatory with a 1-meter (!) telescope is under construction: https://bayern.naturparke.de/2026/04/29/baustart-fuer-die-naturpark-sternwarte-bayerwald/ - the much smaller telescope here is pointed at Jupiter.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Antonio Vivaldi, Peter Whelan, Jupiter Ensemble & Thomas Dunford:
🎵 Bassoon Concerto in G Minor RV495 III Allegro
#AntonioVivaldi #PeterWhelan #JupiterEnsemble #ThomasDunford
#Spotify

Three #planets in the evening sky over #Regensburg, Germany, today, when the Sun was 9° below the horizon and #Mercury - in the lower right, above the crane - 5° above the horizon. At that time it was also an easy naked-eye object, joining the pair of #Jupiter and #Venus on the left. After some rain during the day the atmosphere was superbly clear!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
George Frideric Handel, Jupiter Ensemble & Thomas Dunford:
🎵 Suite no.4 in D minor HWV.437 (Sarabande)
#GeorgeFridericHandel #JupiterEnsemble #ThomasDunford

Inspired by a hot #AllSky7 frame - #Jupiter and #Venus out of the muck! Both pictures heavily boosted in contrast.

Manchmal hab' ich das Gefühl, dass alles zu viel wird und ich zu wenig tun kann. Dann hilft oft der Blick nach oben, weg von der Welt, rein in die schier unendliche Ferne.
#Sonnenuntergang
#Mond
#Jupiter
#Venus
#Darmstadt