Observation by Mike Scarisbrick: Venus and Saturn

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Mike Scarisbrick

Observer

Mike Scarisbrick

Observed

2019 Dec 09 - 17:00

Uploaded

2020 Feb 04 - 07:38

Objects

Venus
Saturn
Conjunction

Equipment

Motorola mobile phone

Exposure

Automatic: The phone chose f/2, 1/14s, ISO 1600

Location

St Ives, Cambridgeshire

Target name

Venus Saturn

Title

Venus and Saturn

About this image

I'm a bit late posting this, it goes back to Callum Potter's Observers Challenge from 5th December 2019. I had made a mental note of this, but lacked the where-with-all to take a camera with me to work. This is from Monday the 9th of December, taken with my phone camera. You can see that the car park at work is not the ideal location for astronomical observations, but Saturn was an easy naked eye object (to my surprise). In the single frames which makes up the main image, Saturn can just about be made out. The inset is an average of a section of seven such handheld images. Saturn is a bit more obvious.

The next clear evening was Friday 13th. After four days of the Sun getting ever closer to Saturn, it had ceased to be a naked eye object (to my eyes in the same car park). The phone camera couldn't see it either,

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