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