Monday, April 30, 2012

APOD 4.5

This is a sequence of pictures taken last week of the Moon and the Solar System's innermost planet, Mercury. As Mercury reaches its greatest elongation angle from the Sun, it tracks a similar path as the old crescent Moon. The two are climbing along an ecliptic plane steeply inclined along the horizon. This well composed sequence captures the rising Moon and Mercury above the city lights of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.

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