"Glenn Holliday" wrote in message
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mitch wrote:
Saturn at about 05:30 UTC was easily 2 or 3 degrees
away from Venus as they were setting. The sky map shows them to be a lot
closer..what gives?

On Saturday evening in the eastern U.S. I photographed and measured
them about a finger width apart, Saturn above Venus.

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Above?!?

When I observed them, Venus was above Saturn. Upstream, Matthew Ota's
picture also shows this relationship.

Color me confused.