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                              2019 November 28
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                        Moon and Planets at Twilight
                Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Petr Horálek

   Explanation: This week's ongoing conjunction [5]of Venus and Jupiter
   may have whetted your appetite for skygazing. Tonight is the main
   course though. On November 28, a young [6]crescent Moon will join them
   posing next to the two bright planets above the western horizon at
   twilight. Much like tonight's [7]visual feast, this night skyscape
   shows a young lunar crescent and brilliant Venus in the western evening
   twilight on October 29. The celestial beacons are setting over distant
   mountains and the Minya monastery, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,
   Sichuan, [8]China, planet Earth. Then Mercury, not Jupiter, was a
   celestial companion to Venus and the Moon. The fleeting innermost
   planet is just visible here in the bright twilight, below and left of
   Venus and near the center of the frame. Tomorrow, November 29, the
   crescent Moon will also help you spot planet [9]Saturn for desert.

                Tomorrow's picture: extreme shrimp cocktails
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   4. http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?page_id=20
   5. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191126.html
   6. https://earthsky.org/tonight/young-moon-3-bright-planets-at-dusk
   7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us0rYH_i_LQ&feature=youtu.be
   8. http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=5257
   9. https://earthsky.org/tonight/let-the-moon-show-you-saturn
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