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The 2002 Grand Planetary Alignment- the closest readily-visible
grouping of all the naked-eye planets for the past 40 years. The
planets are identified in the inset on the right. Photographed from
Flagstaff. I now wish I'd tried a longer exposure or wider
aperture...

8:10 pm, May 6th 2002.
8 secs., f5.3, ISO 100
Cropped, subsampled, inset added.