Planets in the evening 26.08.2016

[Pete Presland]

Finally got a decent view of Venus and Jupiter last night. Yesterday evening was a beautiful end to the day in "darkish" Bedfordshire.

Nothing complicated about the images, just the Canon 450 on a tripod.

Venus was a fairly easy spot around 8:15 around 5 degrees above the horizon and 20 degrees to the left of where the sun had set. This was taken later once Venus and Jupiter had cleared the cloud bank above. 

This would have been a straight forward capture if it wasn't for the incredible amount of air traffic, one of my images had 7 aircraft in the field of view! I could hear and see an owl flying around the harvested field in front of me, I was hoping it might perch on one of those branches

It was a great night to be out with so many classic sights, that photos really can not do justice to. There was a combine still working away when I left at 10:30, the dust that was slowly drifting though dips in the hills did look very atmospheric.

[johnfosteruk]

Lovely set of a fine evening Pete, nicely done.

[Pete Presland]

7 hours ago, johnfosteruk said:

Lovely set of a fine evening Pete, nicely done.

It was a stunning end to the day,  no photo I could take would convey the still beauty of a late summer sunset.

[David Smith]

Good pic Pete. Tricky to spot from here as the horizon is so cluttered.

[Pete Presland]

7 hours ago, David Smith said:

Good pic Pete. Tricky to spot from here as the horizon is so cluttered.

Very difficult from where I was as well.