Planets Put on a Show

Four planets lined up nicely for the camera on Saturday morning, June 18, 2022, but one was bashful and didn't show. The panoramic image above shows (from lower left-to-upper right) Venus (magnitude -3.93), Mars (magnitude 0.55), Jupiter (magnitude -2.35) and Saturn (magnitude 0.65, just above the moon). Mercury had not risen yet and was located below and left of Venus, but was washed out in the rising sun"s glare as it did so. This image, captured at 4:27 am CDT,  looks east from Archer Drive in the Bowman Meadows housing development in Marion, Iowa. It is a 3 second exposure at f/3.2, ISO 200 and 11mm focal length, and is a stitch of four separate exposures. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.