APOD 4.1

This picture, "Venus and Mercury in the West" is quite, 'picturesque' one might say. The picture depicts a perfect artistic composition of a windmill on the left hand side of the picture. The old style windmill stands in a sharp contrast to the far away and mysterious planets of Venus and Mercury. This picture specifically applies to what we have been doing in class lately, in that in class in the past weeks, we have been discussing the relative positions of several planets which are present in the morning sky lately. Also while perusing the relevant article here, I learned that the planet Mercury is quite rare in the sky, because it is often lost in the glare of the sun.