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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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