Tootfinder

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.

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!

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.

Bought my first flytrap at DIY store. It has since exploded into at least four other plants. These carnivorous plants are so much fun.
#carnivorousplant #venusflytrap

A Planetary-Scale Hydraulic Jump Driving #Venus' Cloud Front: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026JE009672 -> Venus’ atmosphere jumps and waves: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00453.html - vast atmospheric waves on Venus are caused by largest known “hydraulic jump” -> A Gigantic Atmospheric Anomaly Keeps Showing Up on Venus. Astronomers Finally Know Why: https://gizmodo.com/a-gigantic-atmospheric-anomaly-keeps-showing-up-on-venus-astronomers-finally-know-why-2000757051 - the answer is a gigantic “hydraulic jump,” and researchers believe similar phenomena may occur on planets like Mars.

Giant impacts on Venus - lasting consequences on interior dynamics and volcanism, or the lack thereof: #Venus’ Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By A High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/venus-strange-rotation-was-likely-triggered-by-a-high-velocity-moon-sized-impactor

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

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.)

Investigation of the dynamics and origin of the NEA pair 2021 PH27 and 2025 GN1: #Venus due to 2021 PH27 and 2025 GN1 will occur on July 5, 2026, when the planet will be at its closest approach to the pair’s orbit and, at the same time, will reveal part of its shadowed hemisphere to Earth."

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.

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!

Carbon Cycle Imbalances on Arid Terrestrial Planets with Implications for #Venus: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae4faa -> Planets need more water to support life than scientists previously thought: https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/04/15/planets-need-more-water-to-support-life/

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

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

The evening #planets (with lunar crescent) show is coming to an end tonight: in #Venus #occultation by the Moon.