For the past week, weather permitting, I took a series of photographs from my backyard during the early evening. I tried to get the tripod and camera positioned in roughly the same spot. I also tried to remember to take the photos at about the same time, during the eight o’clock hour. I believe I was more or less successful. The following are the best of the bunch in the progression of the mid-March 2012 Venus Jupiter Conjunction:
![Jupiter (left) Venus (right) as close as they get on Monday evening 03/12/2012](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/6840794134_1463c32dac_z.jpg" width="640" height="426" alt="IMGP2421"></a>)
To see the entire set of photos, please visit my Venus Jupiter Conjunction album.
This is so cool! Neat idea, and fun to see it like this when I don’t normally get to see the stars at all. Too many lights here in Dallas!
Thanks to longer exposures, the camera sees much better than I do with my naked eye. I have lots of light pollution in Lansing, which is just northwest of Kansas City. Glad you liked the photos and thanks for stopping by my blog.