Despite being 416,399,477 miles apart<\/a>, Venus and Jupiter appeared just 16 arc minutes <\/a>(or half the width of a full Moon) away from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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I’d planned the scene by using Stellarium<\/a> to work out where the planets were going to be and at what time, and used Google Maps<\/a> and Ordnance Survey<\/a> to calculate where I could see them from<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The aircraft in the photo I believe is D-AIXD, an Airbus A350 flying flight LH425 from Boston to Munich, from FlightRadar24<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
High res images can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"