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© David HoughManaged to get this happy snap this evening - lots of high and low cloud about which shows in the images of Regulus and Venus. Taken with a 127ed refractor and a cooled modified Canon 40D
Look west at sunset. Venus is passing by 1st magnitude star Regulus; they're only a little more than a degree apart. Bright Venus catches the eye first. As the glow of sunset fades, Regulus pops out of the twilight a little below Venus. The view through binoculars is superb.

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