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In the foreground, a chimney with smoke. Behind, in a twilight sky, 2 bright dots, Venus and Jupiter.

Venus and Jupiter on January 18, 2019 from Dennis Schoenfelder in Alamosa, Colorado.

Bright dots of planets and stars, plus a short streak, the satellite.

Venus (brightest), Jupiter (2nd-brightest), the star Antares in Scorpius (3rd-brightest) and a satellite flare. Peter Lowenstein caught them on January 19, 2019 from Mutare, Zimbabwe. About the satellite, he wrote: “The short trail on the 4-second exposure rules out a fast-moving meteor and the appearance on only one photograph among several taken at about 30-second intervals suggests it was not an aircraft.” 4 second time-exposure with tripod-mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in night scenery mode.

Black background with 2 bright dots, Venus and Jupiter, above town lights.

Jose Lagos wrote on January 19, 2019: “It was a beautiful, clear, crisp morning over Vaals, Netherlands, and Venus and Jupiter were lighting up the sky in a very attractive way. How beautiful is the cosmic ballet in the night sky!”

Bright planets over dark mountainous landscape

Emma Zulaiha Zulkifli caught bright planets Venus (top) and Jupiter. from in Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia on January 12, 2019.

Bottom line: Photos of the Venus-Jupiter conjunction – January 2019 – from the EarthSky community.

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