The Outer Planets

[Beyond_Vision]

Since it's been pretty lousy weather wise, here's a cheeky composite view of the outer planets from a Moon orbiters view (And yes I know the scale and perspective isn't true to life). The image of the Earth is courtesy of NASA. The individual images were taken in 2006 with the LX90 10" and DSI.

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I hope this relieves the boredom for a few seconds

Regards

Kevin

[SteelRat]

The image of the Earth iscourtesy of NASA

Good :shock:

Nice pic Kevin 8)

Cheers

Matthew(SR)

[Astroman]

You mean, you didn't take the one of Earth? Oh my!

Anyway, it's probably a good thing the scale is wrong, as who knows what kind of tidal waves/earthquakes/valcano problems such an alignment would cause?!

Nice work.

[Beyond_Vision]

You mean, you didn't take the one of Earth? Oh my!

Anyway, it's probably a good thing the scale is wrong, as who knows what kind of tidal waves/earthquakes/valcano problems such an alignment would cause?!

Nice work.

Heheh even my kit list doesnt extend to a Saturn Five Rocket

Regards

Kevin

[barkis]

Nicely put together Kevin, and it does have an educational value too, even though not to scale, and it makes an attractive picture.

Ron.

[Tim]

Hey! Thats great, boredom relieved.

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Whats next?

[Sam]

That's really great Kevin! That large patch of cloud on the Earth must be where the UK is.

[algol]

very nice indeed that is.

would be nice with venus and mercury added at some time.

[jgs001]

Nice one Kevin.

[Beyond_Vision]

very nice indeed that is.

would be nice with venus and mercury added at some time.

I have managed to image all the planets and Pluto but Venus and Mercury are widefield shots. They are a little more trickier to image up close.

Regards

Kevin

[Talitha]

Nice job Kevin, that's one heck of a syzygy you've got there! :thumbup:

Btw, don't let the 'doomsday' folks see this or they'll start predicting all sorts of disasters again.

[algol]

how come neptune looks lighter blue than uranus? never seen it in the scope yet but curious i am