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Mercury and Venus Conjunction 21 May 2020
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 9:52 pm
by Hondo
Greetings. Mercury never gets very high at my latitude, couple that with no clear horizon due to trees and it does become a quite elusive target. This is only the second time I have captured Mercury in over 45 years of astronomy. Thanks for looking.
Single image of 1/20 sec at ISO 800 with Samyang 85mm lens and a Canon T3.
Re: Mercury and Venus Conjunction 21 May 2020
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 2:55 am
by helicon
Pretty cool - thanks Scott.
Re: Mercury and Venus Conjunction 21 May 2020
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 3:27 am
by sdbodin
Yup, looked the same from my house, below a cloud band and just above the horizon thru my binos.
Nice,
Steve
Re: Mercury and Venus Conjunction 21 May 2020
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 12:56 pm
by Greenman
Now, my wife is a news hound, on the 19th she told me that I could see a conjunction of mercury and venus just after 09:30. I grabbed my 10x50's and low and behold there it was and I gazed and watched mecury set. I resolved to take a photo. Finally last night I did this, I was surprised to see the conjunction had shifted so far by the 22nd and mercury was no longer below venus but alongside it. So I fired off a couple of shots.
Mercury Venus Original by
Tony Boutle, on Flickr
Canon 100D, 55-250 mm STM at 172mm, 1 sec
F/22 ISO 800 manual focus.
And then a close up:
Mercury Venus Original 250mm by
Tony Boutle, on Flickr
Canon 100D, 55-250 mm STM at 250mm, 1 sec
F/16 ISO 400 manual focus.
It is great to have my wife on board and keeping me astronimcally active. Oh, but she did say, is that it - just two dots...
