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Conjunction junction

kalasinman

By kalasinman
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pjsmith_6198

pjsmith_6198

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Yesterday I was able to easily fit them both in the FOV of my 150mm scope with a ES6824 EP and they barely fit in the FOV of a 12mm Starguider, so the separation was just under 1 degree.     Venus was very bright so I put in a light blue filter and that toned it down a bit so the phase was easier to see.     It was very cool.   If it's clear, give it a shot.   Unfortunately where I am the forecast for the next few days is cloudy but I feel fortunate  I was able to catch it when I did.

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Hyperion76

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caught it with my mak from the bedroom and a 25 mm eyepiece ,quite surreal seeing the two planets in the same eyepiece especially as the moons of JUpiter emerged which although the largest is Mercury size still gave a sense of comparative scale between the two planets

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Paul M

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I just got back from an outing to the beach to have a look. West is not a good direction from the back yard.

As I arrived I saw a group of people looking through and a 4" refractor and an 8" Dob (size guestimates). I think it was the Blackpool club doing some outreach. I didn't go and say "hi" but I should have really.

I just took my old Lumix DMC-FZ50. Looks like a DSLR but it's just a digital camera with an optical zoom lens and tripod and found a quiet spot away from the masses.

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Also saw these blokes stood on the beach talking about fish....weirdos :D

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The hill on the horizon behinf them is "Black Combe" on the far side of Morecambe Bay with the lights of Barrow-in-Furness apparently at its foot.

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pipnina

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Clouds - if they don't getcha, the chimneys will...

Oh well, five minutes with V&J is still five whole minutes. Worth a whole evening of TV... :)

My clouds went on holliday for tonight (it was looking like thick cloud and rain on the forecast last week so I didn't gte my hopes up) so I got some observing of the conjunction done. My scope got a de-dusting tonight.

Although, I got to experiance the full force of observing low objects over the middle of Plymouth... It was fine around 22:00 with venus' crescent clearly visible and only looking a little wobbly at 90x, not a lot of detail of jupiter, perhaps an equatorial band showed up but I wasn't sure.

But by 23:00 they got really low and all I saw was a mirage of wobbles around both planets. I admit I sat there a little just looking at that... I'd never quite seen it that bad before.

Despite having that hour, though, I took 3 minutes of observing at 22:00 and came back in to have my shower.... by the time I'd got out, dried and dressed again the above had happened. Oh well.

It could have been worse, though, it could have been proper cloudy...

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RT65CB-SWL

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On June 29th, I captured this single shot image of the Venus/Jupiter conjunction from LHR/T2 departures drop-off area (level 5)...

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...with a Samsung S4 set to 'auto' and '4X zoom'.  :icon_salut:

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knobby

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We (Essex cloud dodgers) had a bash last night , Steve (Blazar) just managed to squeeze them onto the ASI 120 MM /Tal ...

We didn't dodge the clouds for more than about 20 minutes unfortunately

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