Mercury & Venus Conjunction: June 2005

 On the evening of June the 27th, Mercury and Venus came very close together in a rare close conjunction. On the 25th they were also joined by Saturn. Saturn, however was too faint in my very bright northern summer sky to be visible. I also got my best ever images of Mercury through this conjunction, helped by the fact that the planet for once was easy to find, right next to Venus.
On the 27th, Venus and Mercury were so close that I could get them both into the same field of view of the webcam CCD through my 222mm F8 Newtonian. See the third image down.