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Community photo entitled  by Mohammad Adeel on 06/23/2023 at Lahore and Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan

On 06/23/2023 08:30 pm by Mohammad Adeel | Website | Lahore and Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Moon and Venus clockwork 🕧

When two objects of the night sky have the same right ascension they are said to be in conjunction. Among the visible conjunctions, those including the crescent moon and Venus are one of the spectacular sights of our night sky. The Moon-Venus conjunction is a result of the positioning of the Moon and Venus in close proximity to each other in the sky from our perspective but in reality they are far apart. From an astronomical point of view, this is caused by the relative orbits of the Earth, Moon, and Venus around the Sun.
This season since it's approach to the Eastern elongation, planet Venus has been in a series of very close conjunctions with the crescent moon each month and resulted in positions surrounding almost every side of the crescent just like a clockwork across the sky. I had been capturing all these conjunctions every month over the past 6 months (except for March which I couldn't, due to cloudy skies so created a composite to complete the series) and decided to create a collage in a clockwork fashion.

EXIF:
Canon EOS 1300D
Samyang 135mm f/2 lens
Ioptron sky tracker

All images are single exposures of around 25-30 seconds tracked and cropped.
PS 2020 used for creating the collage and labels.