[Cool!] Rare Planetary Alignment: Jupiter And Venus Align - March 13th 2012

Lady of Light

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Tonight when I was driving home, I couldn't help but notice what looked like 2 very bright stars together in the sky. They were so bright, they made the other stars appear insignificant. Naturally, I assumed it must be a planetary alignment. Sure enough, upon doing some quick searching, it was found to be a very rare planetary alignment of Venus and Jupiter.

Here are some pictures that I took tonight (March 13th 2012) around 9:15 PM. The larger and brighter of the 2 planets (on the right) as seen is Venus. The smaller and less bright planet (on the left) is Jupiter.


Jupiter-Venus Alignment Zoom (copyright unhypnotize.com).jpg Jupiter-Venus Alignment 2 (copyright unhypnotize.com).jpg

The first image is zoomed in, the second image is zoomed out.

Jupiter-Venus Alignment Zoom Inverted (copyright unhypnotize.com).jpg

In this image, I inverted the zoomed in image to enhance the planets. It kind of gives it a nice effect.


Venus Zoomed In (copyright unhypnotize.com).jpg


This is what happened when I zoomed in on Venus.

Venus Zoomed In - red - (copyright unypnotize.com).jpg

Here is another image of Venus, different level of zoom. You can see, it has a red hue.

There is also video that was taken, and will be posted shortly. For now, I thought I would share the photos taken tonight.

Enjoy! :)
 
Here are more pictures from tonight (March 14th).

Jupiter-Venus Alignment 1 March 14th 2012 (copyright unhypnotize.com).jpg Jupiter-Venus Alignment 2 March 14th 2012 (copyright unhypnotize.com).JPG


Jupiter-Venus Alignment 3 March 14th 2012 (copyright unhypnotize.com).JPG Jupiter-Venus Alignment 4 March 14th 2012 (copyright unhypnotize.com).jpg

These first 4 are just a progression of the movement in the alignment.

Venus 1 (Jupiter-Venus Alignment) March 14th 2012 (copyright unhypnotize.com).JPG Venus Negative Image 1 (Jupiter-Venus Alignment) March 14th (copyright unhypnotize.com).JPG

Venus and it's negative image, zoomed in.

Venus 2 (Jupiter-Venus Alignment) March 14th 2012 (copyright unhypnotize.com).jpg Venus Negative Image 2 (Jupiter-Venus Alignment) March 14th 2012 (copyright unhypnotize.com).jpg

Venus and it's negative image, zoomed a little further out than the picture above (with the purple and green).

Again, video is to come shortly. I will have video and pictures of each night that I am able to capture such.


:) Lady of Light :)
 
As promised. Here is the first in the series of videos of the Jupiter-Venus alignment. It's a quick little video just to show zoomed in and zoomed out what it looked like in the night sky on March 13th 2012.

 
And the video from March 14th, is a lot longer, but it has been sped up to 3X normal speed to show the movement of the planets. You can clearly see how both Venus and Jupiter are rapidly moving across the night sky. I had to keep adjusting the camera to keep up with them.

Enjoy!

[video=youtube;_wGmZlar3GI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_wGmZlar3GI[/video]
 
Thanks, SUNGAZER.

Unfortunately, I was unable to capture any pictures or video tonight. It was, and still is, very cloudy outside with electrical storms all around in the air. It's too bad too because tonight (March 15th) is supposed to be the peak of the alignment.

I will try for some more pictures/video tomorrow night. (Weather permitting of course.)
 
Here's more footage from March 16th 2012. I had a long line of footage, so most of the video is sped up merely to show the movement of the planets quicker. The original main footage is shot over 24 minutes, which is much too long for a video of this nature, so it was simply sped up and other portions of video from the night were added.

Enjoy!


[video=youtube;nLPdbFY-er0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nLPdbFY-er0[/video]
 
Here's a collection of the still images captured throughout the nights of the alignment.


[video=youtube;UC9SULvUr-g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UC9SULvUr-g[/video]
 
Alright everyone, aside from a few still shots that I would like to post from the last couple of nights, here is the final video in the series of the March 2012 Jupiter Venus alignment.

[video=youtube;--MDZ-y3nUY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=--MDZ-y3nUY[/video]


Check out 2 minutes and 45 seconds into the video at the top left corner. There's an interesting light that appears and then disappears. This was NOT an airplane passing by. You can see that it quickly appears out of nowhere, moves and disappears rather quickly. There are no obstructions in the sky at the time.
 
Nice pictures. Nice videos. I especially like the video with the UFO in it. That one's really cool. What are the chances of that? I guess if you point your camera to the sky for long enough, you're bound to catch something.
 
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