Venus and Mercury 07/02/07 - John Gilmour

Mercury was at greatest elongation (18 degrees east of Sun) on 7th Feb 2007 at 6pm. This picture was taken at 6.15 local time and shows Venus (upper left) and Mercury (lower right) low in the west southwestern sky over Beauly and Muir of Ord. Taken with a Canon Powershot G2, 3.2 sec exposure at f8. JG