Towering Planets

The brilliant planets Jupiter (upper) and Venus flank the Hiawatha, Iowa water tower in this view of the west sky around 8:17 PM, Friday, March 9, 2012. This image was shot from the parking lot of Pratt Audio-Visual & Video business along North 20th Avenue and was a two-second exposure at f/8, 1600 ISO and 26mm focal length. Jupiter sported a magnitude of -2.13 and Venus of -4.26, and were within just a few degrees of each other as seen from our view. The two other stars in the upper right belong to the constellation Aries.