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Relative Planets

What is neat about lining all three images side-by-side is that they were taken with the same telescope and same equipment setup.

This is my first good image of Jupiter in 2018. The focus was near-perfect and about as good as I am going to get with my equipment.

June 16, 2018 Paul 982 Views 0 Comments Moon, Venus

We’re about a month from the last rendezvous of the Moon and Venus.

I don’t always photograph the Moon in broad daylight. But when I do, I try to include a former world’s tallest building, for perspective.

The current positions and timing of our planets offer an opportunity to see both Jupiter and Venus in the sky shortly after Dusk.

Above Leo and to the left you can see Coma Berenices. It sort of blends in with the other fainter stars directly above Leo.

May 18, 2018 Paul 979 Views 0 Comments Moon, Venus

If you look closely above and to the left of the Moon, you can see stars. They were not visible to me at the time I took this picture.

For the Spring Triangle, you are seeing the complete and full dimensions of the source image.

I will say this for cloudy weekdays – at least I don’t have to make up excuses for not taking my telescope and camera out on a “school night.”

Just one problem, though – the Moon was approaching Full and washed much of the sky out. So I settled for looking at the Moon, mostly.