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Community photo entitled  by David Chapman on 05/23/2020 at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

On 05/23/2020 09:30 pm by David Chapman| Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Venus, Mercury, and the Moon— Venus is at centre, Mercury to the upper left, and the Moon to the lower left. I knew it was going to be a tricky shot with the young crescent Moon so low at sunset. I picked it up in binoculars at 9:04 p.m. ADT, but the sky conditions were not right to capture all three until 9:30 p.m. and then I had to work quickly. I was lucky that the sky was free of clouds, but haze from forest fires dimmed the Moon considerably at this low altitude.

Canon SL1 on tripod, ISO 400, Canon 85 mm f/1.8 lens @ f/2.8, 1/60 s

Image is cropped. Minimal adjustments of colour, brightness, and contrast in PhotoShop.