Submitted by: chasiotis elias (elias_chasiotis@stendor.coo.gr) [30 Jun 05]
On 27 June 2005 there was a very close conjunction between Mercury and Venus. It was one of the closest and most beautiful planetary conjunctions of the past decades (for N Hemisphere). I couldn't even separate the two objects with the naked eye as Venus glare covered Mercury. These are three photos of the conjunction captured on 27 June 2005 near 16:20 UT (~ 90 minutes before sunset). Both planets appear in the same photo as they were only 4' apart. Two different camera settings were used to show more clearly Mercury's phase 61.16% (brighter photo). Venus surface brightness +1.1 / Mercury surface brightness +3.1 (Mercury had 6.3 times fainter surface brightness than Venus). Despite the fact that no filter was used (not even IR cut), some details seem to appear on Venus disk (enlargement).
Submitted by: GONZALO GRANER (g_graner@hotmail.com) [30 Jun 05]
Here is a photo of Saturn,Venus, and Mercury (Saturday evening 25/6/2005) from Caracas-Venezuela. The kit I used was as follows: ETX70 and Nikon Coolpix 2100.
Submitted by: Rick (stankiewiczr@nexicom.net) [30 Jun 05]
Attached is an image from last night (June 25/05) after sunset, when three of Earth's neighbours were gathering in the western horizon (within 1.5 degrees of each other). It was around 10:00 p.m. EST and I was using a Nikon Coolpix 995 (100 ASA @ 3 sec.) to record this image in my backyard just west of Keene, Ontario. Good think I got this image on this evening because the next night was cloudy from my location.
Submitted by: LUFHISSA ((GERENCIA PLANTA)) (gerenciaplanta@lufhissa.com) [26 Jun 05]
I am sending to you a picture of the milky way for your sky section. The picture was taken with a Canon EOS digital piggyback on a ETX 125. 30 min exposition ISO 800 and some digital enhancement with APS. Your webpage is great !! BTW , how can you get the time for answer all the mails requesting help ? I suppose that it is an enormous work.
Submitted by: Dave Wallace (d_wallace@ecrm.com) [20 May 05]
The moon and Jupiter at approximately 0000 20 May 2005 UTC. (This was about 1/2 hour after local sunset.) Canon Digital Rebel, 200 mm lens.
Submitted by: Rick (stankiewiczr@nexicom.net) [20 May 05]
Attached is a view of the Moon and Jupiter within 3 degrees of each other. This image was taken about 8:15 p.m. EST near Keene, Ontario. There was a thin veil of cloud that really added to the diffuse look of the over exposed Moon, but Jupiter shines through quite nicely all the same. A Nikon Coolpix 995 was used to capture this image and exposure of 4 seconds at a 100 ASA setting.
Submitted by: geheniau@xs4all.nl [11 Apr 05]
1 startrail (you can see Polaris is a double star) and you can see the AIRPLANES (I hate them :-)) Analog camera ($5) 20 minutes exposure.
Submitted by: Igor Stojic (thelordofthesky@yahoo.com) [18 Mar 05]
Submitted by: geheniau@xs4all.nl [24 Jan 05]
Finally I saw for the first time the Northern Lights in The Netherlands. Beautiful experience.
Submitted by: chasiotis elias (elias_chasiotis@stendor.coo.gr) [18 Jan 05]
I send you three photos of the conjunction of Venus with Mercury taken on three consecutive mornings around 5:00 UTC (40 to 25 minutes before sunrise). I used ETX 125, Atik 1c, and i put the Meade 32mm super Plossl inside the teleextender. Also i used a 0.5 focal reducer. Still the magnification was high so i zoomed out the images to 0.5 at Photoshop. Stacking and aligning was done with K3 ccd tools.