Luna Venere e Giove su Palermo

Luna Venere e Giove su Palermo

Just for fun I thought that I’d label the mountains behind Palermo in Carlo Columba’s photo of the amazing conjunction last week of the Moon, Jupiter and Venus. Wow!! Just a shame it was cloudy in Trento that day :( You can find the original photo here. It is published on Flickr under a CC licence. We redistribute this derived work under the same license.

Warning: the apparent diameter of the Moon in this photo is 5.6 degrees instead of the more realistic 0.5 (more information here and here). It is therefore evident that this picture is the aesthetically pleasant result of the composition of multiple photos, without any pretense of being astonomically realistic.

9. December 2008, 16:12 hide comments Posted in: Posts Tagged with: , , , The permalink address (URI) of this photo is: http://tev.fbk.eu/marmota/blog/2008/12/09/luna-venere-e-giove-su-palermo/

Comments (2)

  1. Aestetically plesant? Certainly not to me. Apply the same stretching effort and you bring Monte Fasce (nearby Genoa: 832m) to challenge Mt. Everest. By the way: have a look at very nice pictures from Monte Fasce at http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Fasce.

    bruno giovanni caprile — January 14th, 2009 at 23:20

  2. [...] Fasce and the Moon Following the advice of one of our readers (Bruno), we begin today a short series of views taken from Monte Fasce [...]

    Marmota » Monte Fasce and the Moon — January 19th, 2009 at 09:42

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