Venus and Mars in close conjunction in the dawn sky on October 5, 2017. Venus is the brightest object; Mars is below it; while the star above Venus is

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Venus and Mars in close conjunction in the dawn sky on October 5, 2017. Venus is the brightest object; Mars is below it; while the star above Venus is 4th magnitude Sigma Leonis. The foreground is illuminated by light from the setting Full Moon in the west. This is a single 1-second exposure with the 135mm lens at f/2 and Canon 60Da at ISO 800. Compared to the earlier shot with the lens stopped down, Venus did not show diffraction spikes as the lens was wide open at f/2. So I added the diffraction spikes with the Astronomy Tools action set. The sky here is also more coloured from the dawn twilight.

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Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
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