Dusk, Night Midpoint, Dawn
Taken by Bob Beal on April 5, 2023 @ St. George, Utah, USA
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Images taken at dusk (left), the midpoint between sunset and sunrise (center), and dawn (right). A separate image labels more parts of the dusk FOV.

In the dusk image 3 planets are arrayed beneath the bright stars of the constellation Taurus in the west. Brilliant Venus (mag -4.0) lies directly below the Pleiades, which it will be alongside of on Apr 10th. Mercury (mag -0.7) is at maximum eastern elongation on Apr 11th. yet it never quite manages to reach the Pleiades before dropping back towards the Sun. Uranus (mag 5.8) is present and accounted for in the photo, even if invisible to the naked eye.

A mineral Moon was taken at the center point of night, or anti-noon; by coincidence this time came exactly 3 hours after the exact instant of Full Moon in the evening. Anti-noon isn't the same as midnight; even ignoring daytime savings time, there's your position in your time zone and the equation of time to factor in.

Finally, the dawn image shows the setting Moon teetering on the edge between Earth's shadow receding at the horizon and the roseate Belt of Venus. Virgo's brightest star Spica (mag 1.0) has nearly faded away to the left of the Moon.

Astro data (all date/times MDT): Apr 5-6, 2023.
... Sunset: 7:59pm. Dusk photo: 9:06pm. Dusk ends: 9:39pm.
... Full Moon: 10:35pm. Anti-noon: 1:35am. Night photo: 1:42am.
... Dawn starts: 5:46am. Dawn photo: 7:04am. Sunrise: 7:15am.

Photo data: Panasonic GX8. Lumix lenses: 20mm, 100-300mm, 12-35mm.
... Left: 9:06pm MDT. @20mm. 3 x (f/2, 10 sec, ISO 200) = 30 sec.
... Center: 1:42am. @300mm. 1 x (f/7.1, 1/500 sec, ISO 200).
... Right: 7:04am. @35mm. 1 x (f/3.2, 1/160 sec, ISO 200) -1.7EV.

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