Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 
"Her [#Aphrodite] who restrains the bloody hands of rough Mars [#Ares], who brings peace to warring nations and holds plenty in her rich horn, mild goddess."
Seneca, Medea 62
@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #GreekRomanArt #FrescoFriday
Good Morning! Fingernail moon and Venus - skyline 149 #photography #landscape #sunrise #moon #Venus #gradient #skyline #silhouette #infinite8horizon #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited
Weil das Bild mit einer Brennweite von 200 mm aufgenommen wurde und weil die Venus nahe der unteren Konjunktion steht (also fast auf der Linie zwischen Erde und Sonne), lässt sich die Venussichel in diesem Ausschnitt erkennen.
Die Venus ist deutlich schmaler, ist aber auch so hell, dass sie im Foto überbelichtet ist.
Die Konjunktion von Venus und Merkur heute Abend aus der Wedemark im Norden der Region Hannover. Zwischen die Planeten passen rund 11 Vollmonde oder 5,5°. Näher kommen sie sich nicht in dieser Abendsichtbarkeit.
Beide Planeten ließen sich leicht mit bloßem Auge sehen, aber Merkur ist deutlich lichtschwächer als vor einer Woche.
Because the picture was taken at f=200 mm and because the Venus is near its inferior conjuction (i.e. close to being on the line between Earth and Sun), one can see the Venus crescent in a 100% crop of the image.
The crescent is much, much narrower, but it's so bright that it's overexposed in my image.
Conjunction of Venus and Mercury today from Wedemark north of Hanover, Germany. The two planets are 5.5° apart (the closest they will be in this evening visibility period).
Both were visible to the naked eye, but Mercury (in the lower reddish cirrus clouds near the left edge) was notably fainter than about a week ago.
Would you like to take a trip down the canali of #Venus ?
They run mostly with lava flows, but that is just part of the adventure as you travel them for hundreds of kilometers. Some, like the Baltis Channel, is over 7000 km long!
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17445647.2025.2465669
6% beleuchtet, und trotzdem überstrahlt. Da braucht es dann doch mehr Brennweite, oder deutlich kürzer belichten (vielleicht morgen nochmal früher probieren, wenn das Nachbarhaus nicht in den Weg kommt) ...
Venus and Mercury in evening twilight - two views.
In bright twilight the sky colors are strong and saturated. Only Venus and Mercury are visible.
In darker twilight the sky colors are subdued, but some stars are visible. (And with the planets closer to the horizon I switched to landscape orientation.)
A beautifully clear day ends with a clear view of #Venus and #Mercury over #Belfast from my kitchen window.
#astronomy #astrophotography #planet #solarsystem #northernireland #ShotOnCanon @astrophotography
Another nice evening glimpse of #Mercury & #Venus in the dusk sky, this time looking west along the Neckar from the Alte Brücke in #Heidelberg.
Venus is brighter to the upper right; Mercury is along a diagonal to the left & down from there, just above the thin clouds.
As seen near the end of today’s 55km cycle – sunny & warm for early March, but chilling rapidly after sunset. I also found some Bärlauch (wild garlic) out towards Ladenburg 
Yesterday evening, there were even better conditions to see #Mercury in the evening sky. Again, from the same spot on a bridge over the #Escaut river in Northern France.
To see a short 8 second #timelapse seeing Mercury vanish behind the trees on the horizon:
https://www.silberspur.de/topics/astro/timelapse-mercury-escaut.mp4
#Astronomy #Astronomie #Astro #AstroPhotography #Astrofotografie #Planets #Planeten #Venus #Mercury NaturePhotography #Nature #Water #River #Fluss #Wasser #Stille #Kontemplation #Spiegelung #Zeitraffer
#Mercury is the furthest away from the sun these days, so if you're lucky, you can see it just after sunset, next to #Venus.
#Saturn will pass the sun on 12. (next Wednesday) and become visible in the mornings, followed by Neptune (which isn't visible anyway) on the 19th, Venus on 22th and Mercury (again) on the 24th.
The #Moon is next to #Mars in #Gemini on Sunday, passes by Spica (of Virgo) on the 17th, Antares (of Scorpio) on 20./21. Full moon on 13th/14th.
#astronomy
@remindme 9 days
Some more pictures of this evening's lovely view of Mercury setting with Venus in the western sky over Mannheim & Ludwigshafen.
1. Venus above, Mercury below, 19:18:50CET
2. Zoomed in, Mercury alone, 19:22:15CET
3. Venus above, Mercury below, 19:32:34 CET
4. Venus above, Mercury just 0.1º above the horizon, 20:10:10CET (will add an annotated version below) 
Sunset was at 18:16CET today.
More details 
Mercury and Venus will move closer and closer together in the coming week.
On 12 March, they will be at their minimum distance of 5.5° in the evening. Then Mercury will be fainter and both objects will be at a smaller angular distance from the sun.
Simulated view for the evening of 12 March. The red frame is the field of view of a full-frame camera with a 100 mm lens.
Merkur und Venus werden in der kommenden Woche immer näher aneinander rücken.
Am 12. März stehen sie dann abends mit 5,5° im Minimalabstand. Dann ist der Merkur lichtschwächer und beide Objekte haben einen geringen Winkelabstand zur Sonne.
Simulierter Anblick für den Abend des 12. März. Der rote Rahmen ist das Bildfeld einer Vollformatkamera mit einem 100-mm-Objektiv.
