Video: Jupiter, Venus 'Dance' Over Dunedin Causeway

Check out the video at the bottom of this post.

Tampa Bay area residents who have looked skyward during the evenings over the last few weeks have likely noticed an incredible show going on right before their eyes.

Throughout the past few weeks, Venus and Jupiter have been performing a “dance” of sorts, coming incredibly close together in the night sky. The two planets also enjoyed a few cameo appearances from the moon.

Earlier in the month of June, the two planets and the moon formed “a bright isosceles triangle in the sunset sky,” NASA wrote on its website. That triangle rearranged itself the next evening, prompting NASA officials to say, “Never has a geometry lesson been so beautiful.”

Patch reader Doug Rohloff caught some of the dance on video as the moon reached its near-full peak Tuesday night. He shot “in between the clouds” on the Dunedin Causeway and sent us this video to share.

To learn more about the dance between Jupiter and Venus, check out this previous Patch story.

Do you have great footage or photos of the Tampa Bay area? Share them on Patch by emailing Sherri.Lonon@patch.com. Write #FloridaRocks in the subject line to catch our attention.

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