Moon Venus Mercury conjunction
author: B.A.Tafreshi/Novapix
reference: a-cnj01-20043
Image Size 300 DPI: 49 * 33 cm
The Moon, Venus, Mercury and stars trail over Cerro Paranal observatory. In a time-exposure image the motion of the sky (caused by the Earth rotation) during evening twilight is shown over telescopes of the European Southern Observatory on Paranal mountain, Atacama Desert, Chile. The 4 giant VLT telescopes appear on the main peak and Vista telescope is on the right.