Canyon Alignment
The two brightest objects in the night sky appear side by side in front of the milky way in a rare alignment. Venus is the blue object, and the yellow object is the moon. Even though the moon was only an 8% crescent, it was brighter than Venus. The band of yellow along the horizon is from the last colors of twilight before it was completely dark. This incredible sky is framed over the Colorado River in Utah. The 2000 foot deep canyon is part of Canyonlands National Park. But this view was actually shot from the edge of a cliff at Dead Horse Point State Park.
Date Taken: 11/5/2013
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- Kevin-Palmer.com
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- 5400x3600 / 12.7MB
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milky way, stars, starry, night, sky, space, astronomy, astrophotography, galaxy, dark, venus, nebula, sagittarius, horizon, fall, autumn, november, canyon, utah, dead horse point, state park, moab, colorado river, chasm, cliffs, deep, red, blue, canyonlands, canyonlands national park, national park, crescent, moon, align, alignment, twilight, yellow, bright, moonset, setting
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- Night Sky, Utah, Deepscapes, Canyonlands National Park
