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Taken with my S30 Pro in Stargazing mode, ONLY 2 minutes of integration time using the new 5-second exposures!

Genuinely an impressive feat of the 585 sensor's AMAZING quantum efficiency registering that many stars in only 2 minutes, plus the two planets were only 9 degrees above the western horizon and were setting behind Manhattan (which is a complete light pollution dome!)

The planets were ~1.6 degrees apart :3

Really hope Reddit doesn't compress this image too much...

Managed to capture the very recent planetary parade between Venus (top left,) Jupiter (the next very bright point,) and the elusive Mercury (below and to the right of the thin crescent moon in-between some very lovely high-altitude clouds that I feel really added to the scene~!

This was taken with a Nikon P1000 on Tuesday when the three planets appeared to be perfectly equi-distant from each other (similarly to Orion's belt but scaled up in angular size :o)

Also bonus equilateral triangle formed by Jupiter, Mercury, and Pollux (one of the two brightest stars of Gemini!)

A very recent planetary parade featuring Venus (top left,) Jupiter (next point down,) a thin crescent moon, and Mercury (an extremely faint point located equidistantly from Jupiter as Jupiter is from Venus,) although probably rendered invisible from Reddit's compression sadly :c

Hopefully this fits here, and I hope that this brings you the same quiet, breath-taking serenity imaging this particular and truly unique orbital configuration has brought me that evening :)