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I have been able to portray for La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos the waning moon in conjunction with Venus, Mercury and Mount Montseny, today, from Vic, capital of the Osona region.
Shortly before 7:30 in the morning I captured these images and below Mercury was Mars, but I was unable to include this last planet in the images as some clouds appeared on the horizon.
If we look carefully at the image of the moon over the Montseny massif, we can see the Creu de Matagalls, a cross planted on the top of this mountain, which is not the highest in Montseny, but surpasses it by a few meters the Hill of Man and Les Agudes.
Two stars are in conjunction when, observed from a third (generally the Earth), they are at the same celestial longitude.
Conjunction is one of the main aspects of the planets. It is also applicable to any celestial object that is located visually close to another.
