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Picture of the Day
Picture of the Day
Miguel Claro
Morning conjunction
Saturn is to the left of the Moon, and just below that is Venus. If you look very closely, Mercury appears in the lower-left of the photo. (Canon 400D digital SLR, 45mm lens at f/14, ISO 400, 5-second exposure) Miguel Claro from Lisbon, Portugal, took this image October 16, 2009, at 7:08 a.m. local time.

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