More Planet Alignment Pictures here
More Planet Alignment Pictures here
The 12% illuminated crescent Moon heads towards the trees, followed by Regulus, Mars, and Saturn. Nikon D200, Nikon 18-200 ED lens, f5.6, 8 seconds, ISO 400.
A Plane & Planets
June 18, 2007, about 45 minutes after sunset from my front yard in The Woodlands, TX. Saturn (left) and Venus (right) are about 9 degrees apart total. This is a 2 second exposure at f8 using the Nikon 105mm f2.8 micro lens on the Nikon D200 and a tripod. Conditions were somewhat hazy and you can see the wispy clouds mucking things up a bit; and it only got worse after this image was captured.
Venus, Uranus, and Mercury
2/7/2007 from The Woodlands TX. Nikon D200, Nikon 80-200mm zoom. Venus is the brightest object upper left, then to the right and slightly below you can see Uranus. Way on the bottom right you can see Mercury.
This page is referenced from The Conjunction Project, which is fairly cool.
Venus, Moon, and Jupiter Conjunction, 9/6/2005 from The Woodlands. Scroll down for more.
Moon, Venus (center), Jupiter (very dim, to the right, can you see it?) 9/7/2005
Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Spica, and a Car, Rainbow Ridge Cir., The Woodlands, 9/7/2005
All using Nikon D100 DSLR & a Nikon/Nikkor f2.8 55mm macro manual focus lens at f2.8.
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