Mercury/Jupiter/Mars
Triple
Conjunction
- Dec. 8, 2006
Uploaded 12/3/06
This
is the first morning of the best three days of the planetary
conjuction involving from top down: Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter.
Rising in very bright morning twilight, this image had about
a five minute window of shooting opportunity before it became
too light out in the morning eastern sky. Jupiter here, at the
bottom shows some differential refraction. |
Instrument: Stellarvue SV80S Refractor
w/.8x TR2008 Field Flattener, EFR = 80mm f/4.74 @ 379mm FL
Platform: Televue GEM
Camera: Canon 10D @ ISO400
Exposure: 1s
Filters: Standard IR Block
Location: Payson, Arizona
Elevation: 5150 ft.
Sky: Seeing 7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature: 20F
Processing Tools: Photoshop CS2, Raw Shooter Premium
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