These two brilliant planets were at minimum, as observed from Edgware, just under a degree apart, so, very unusually, they were visible in the same telescope field at the 900mm focal length of my 100ED refractor.. I had never seen … Continue reading
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The spring of 2023 sees an excellent apparition of Venus in the western sky (eastern elongation of Venus), with the planet high in a late afternoon or dusk sky. I have a campaign currently to image Venus in infra-red and … Continue reading
A lucky brief break in the clouds allowed this capture of the conjunction of Venus and Saturn this morning. The two were 5 minutes of arc (1/6 Moon breadth) apart, 12 degrees high in the dawn twilight. (Click to enlarge) … Continue reading