Twilight (5:35PM) capture of Venus and Jupiter conjunction. This was 3 days before closest approach. Cropped version showing Jupiter and its 4 Galilean Moons. See also uncropped version for Venus separation ~93 arcmin. Post processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with PowerNewt(ASA) f/2.84 Reducer/Coma Corrector,No filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 90' x 134' , Ambient ~xxC. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.1.2 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
Twilight (5:35PM) capture of Venus and Jupiter conjunction. This was 3 days before closest approach with ~93 arcmin separation here. See also cropped version of Jupiter, showing its 4 Galilean Moons. Post processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with PowerNewt(ASA) f/2.84 Reducer/Coma Corrector,No filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 90' x 134' , Ambient ~xxC. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.1.2 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
From a capture of Jupiter only (5:40PM) at Venus and Jupiter Conjunction 2015. This was 3 days before closest approach. See also Venus capture. Captured with BackyardEOS 5X Planetary mode - 500 frames @ ISO800 at 1/160 sec. Post Processed with Registax 6 to stack best 10% (50) frames and with Wavelet processing. Further processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with PowerNewt(ASA) f/2.84 Reducer/Coma Corrector,No filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 90' x 134' , Ambient ~xxC. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.1.2 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
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