Venus, Jupiter successfully photographed

Venus, Jupiter successfully photographed

A Kyodo News photographer successfully captures on film Jupiter (near top of the photo) and Venus near the crescent moon in the sky west of Itoman, Okinawa, at 7:10 p.m. on Thursday Feb. 18. According to the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, it will be several years before the two stars can be seen again in the same direction.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001078293
  • Registered date
  • 1999/2/18 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 1999 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 2431 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 1.11(MB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

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