Moonlight, Planets, and Perseids

Within the predawn sky on August 13, two planets hold been conclude. And no matter the glare of a waning gibbous Moon, shining Jupiter and even brighter Venus hold been exhausting to miss. Their very finest conclude conjunction is posing above the eastern horizon on this early morning skyscape. The scene became captured in a single publicity from a draw near Gansu, China, with mild from each planets reflected within the restful waters of a local pond. Additionally seen against the moonlight hold been flashes from the annual Perseid Meteor Bathe, known for its shining, quick meteors. Terminate to the a lot anticipated height of job, the bathe meteors temporarily mixed with the two planets for a celestial spectacle even in moonlit skies.