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Most of the Grand Planetary Alignment (minus Mercury, hidden
by the canyon rim), from Professor Canyon along the Colorado
River near Moab, Utah. Jupiter is the bright object in the
upper left, Venus the even brighter one in the lower right.
Saturn, about to set, is below Venus, and Mars is immediately
above and left of Venus.

9:15pm MDT, May 8th 2002.
8 sec., f2.6, ISO 100
Brightened, cropped, subsampled.