The trio of Jupiter (highest and brightest), Saturn (in the middle and dimmest), and Mercury (lowest) in the evening twilight on January 9, 2021. Tech

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The trio of Jupiter (highest and brightest), Saturn (in the middle and dimmest), and Mercury (lowest) in the evening twilight on January 9, 2021. Technically, Mercury was a magnitude and a half brighter than Saturn, but due to its lower altitude appears about the same brightness here as Saturn. Jupiter was naked eye but it took binoculars to show the other two planets. This is a single exposure with the 135mm Canon lens and Canon EOS Ra. I shot this from home in Alberta at latitude 51° N, so the planets were very low.

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