07 Jul 15 2010 Planetary Alignment English Bay _DSC3822

07 Jul 15 2010 Planetary Alignment English Bay _DSC3822, originally uploaded by VancouverDoug.

This is a view of a rather spectacular planetary alignment that occurred during the middle of July 2010. This view was captured over English Bay from downtown Vancouver Canada. Using the moon as the middle of a clock at 11:00 is Saturn, 1:30 is Mars and just before 3:00 is Venus. All three planets aligned in nearly a straight line. Not shown in the picture and well below the horizon at this point but also aligned is Mercury.

This image was taken with a Nikon D300 at f/4.2 for 5 seconds at ISO 200 and a -1 stop exposure bias.