This morning I drove 50 kilometers from Turin in search of clear skies to observe …and photograph…the close conjunction between a lovely slide crescent Moon and Venus, just before dawn. The chosen observing site was “Colle Braida”, a mountain pass of the Alps at 1,000 meters above the sea level.

I arrived at the site when the dawn twiligh was starting to paint the sky….. but the great show was put in place by the fog clouds that were completly carpeting the valley below! After capturing the “phase to phase” conjunction I was really looking forward for the special guest……the Sun…..to enter the scene ……and this is what I had the fortune to see:

Other images of this lucky session are here: