Planets

This picture is a montage !
Indeed the tree was not west but north of my position !

After a suggestion of Denis Joye, I took a long 60sec exposure of it, used the magic tool of PSP7 to select it,
increased contrast and put it as new layer on the real image of the sky taken in Tiff mode.

You can see Jupiter, The Moon, Venus, Mars and Saturn aligned.
Saturn is visible in between the upper clouds on the bottom right of the tree

Resolution

Shutter speed

Aperture stop

Sensitivity

Enhancement

Date

Model:

: 1600 x 1200 pixels

: 8sec

: F3.2

: ISO 320 equivalent

: Off

: 15/05/02 20:49 UT

: QV-2900UX

How was it done ?
See below...

1)  image of the conjunction

2)  image of the tree in front of  northern light pollution
(60sec exposure)

3)  the tree extracted in PSP

4)  the final image

On May 14th, a beautiful triangle was visible after sunset :

The Moon, Mars at right and Venus above !

As separation angle was about 2°, the Perl Halley 70/400mm was a good choice.
The QV was fixed behind a 35mm eyepiece with a special interface done by D. Loudèche

Original size : 1600 x 1200 pixels

Exposure : 15 sec FD 3.2

Manual Focus

ISO 80 equivalent

Red enhancement

2002, 05 14 20:48 UT

See also Planetary conjunction in 3D !!

Mercury

 

Really bad images, but they are my best so far !
QV  1600*1200,
behind TSC 250 LX200 & 40mm eyepiece (left 1/8 sec at 3:2, right + 3x Barlow 1.6sec),

May 05,2002 19h50 UT

Mars

Celestron 8, 30mm eyepiece, zoom 8x, 1/4s)

Mars above the fields

Venus

Venus before sunrise
(20010704)

Saturn

A "first try" in between elevated clouds
29/08/2001 02H37 UT

C8, Eyepiece Proj Oc 30mm, about 2 - 5 sec exposures

Uranus

 

QV parfocal with 35mm eyepiece, wide field

         


same night,left = parfocal with 26mm eyepiece, right 10mm

This image (August 15, 2001 0242UT) shows well the ecliptic
(whose approximate position is traced in green in PSP)

The stars on the show are from left to right :

Vénus (partly masked by clouds), Jupiter, Moon, Saturn & Aldebaran

5sec exposure at 80ASA, TIFF mode