Venus, Jupiter and Orion Constellation above last glow from receded volcanic sunset twilight arches April 12-13

Clear sky and excellent visibility in the evening on Sunday 12th April provided a good view of yet another volcanic sunset twilight arch developing and then fading with the two planets Venus and Jupiter both visible in last frames taken on the 12th and 13th. The 12th was the first occasion on which Venus was high enough above the Christmas Pass horizon (to the WNW) and Jupiter was close enough to the summit of Transmitter Hill (to the NW) of Mutare for them both to be captured in the same 3:4 aspect ratio camera field of view just before dark. They are at present about 64 degrees apart and during the next two months the two planets will be approaching each other to have a spectacular close encounter on June 7- 8th when they will be about 3 times the width of the Full Moon apart. It will be interesting to see if the volcanic sunsets (which are being caused by remaining stratospheric aerosols from the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga-Tonga volcano) will still be present then (four-and-a-half years after the eruption)! The visibility of the planets and stars in the last two images have been enhanced using Star Spikes Pro filter.

Tripod-mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in manual exposure mode.

Compilation of montage of images taken at about the same time on two consecutive days. Visibility of planets and stars enhanced using 'Star Spikes Pro' filter.