Observation by Steve Knight: Mercury & Venus

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2020 May 22 - 19:49

Uploaded

2020 May 22 - 22:03

Objects

Mercury
Venus
Conjunction

Equipment

Skywatcher 200mm Dobsonian
Canon 6D camera
Watch House EQ platform

Exposure

1/1000th sec, ISO 3200

Location

Warkworth

Target name

Mercury & Venus

Title

Mercury & Venus

About this image

It was cold and it was windy and I was wearing shorts. Well worth a visit though to a field with a good outlook to the west. They were 1.3 degrees apart which I'd calculated would fit in the frame. Nice to see Venus's phase but had to overexpose it to capture Mercury.

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