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Astro Bob blog: Crescent moon visits a 'wintering' Venus / Mercury-moon conjunction for y'all

Wonder what the moon's been up to the past week? Hiding away, getting ready for dual conjunctions with Venus and Mercury.

927185+Moon Venus June 24_edited-1.jpg — The slender crescent moon brushes Venus Tuesday morning at dawn low in the northeastern sky. The Pleiades star cluster, better known as the Seven Sisters, floats just above the pair. This map shows the sky facing northeast around 4 a.m. June 24. Stellarium

By Robert King

June 22, 2014 at 9:54 AM

Wonder what the moon's been up to the past week? Hiding away, getting ready for dual conjunctions with Venus and Mercury.

By Robert King

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