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My View of the Cloudy Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter (1 July 2015)
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 3:09
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| Venus and Jupiter as seen at around 18:30 ACST from Largs Bay, Adelaide on 1 July. 6 second exposure at ASA400 with my Canon IXUS. Click to embiggen. | Venus and Jupiter as seen at around 18:30 ACST from Largs Bay, Adelaide on 1 July. 10 second exposure at ASA400 3x zoom with my Canon IXUS. Click to embiggen. |
Most of the day was sunny with mostly blue skies and light hazy cloud, teasing me with the promise that I might just see tonight's conjunction. Right until sunset, when the cloud thickened.
There was a brief thinning of the cloud around 6:30 pm which allowed me to get these shots. You can just see Regulus if you embiggen them, with the unaided eye I could see Venus, and briefly just see Jupiter in the glow. In binoculars I could make both out before the cloud closed in.
Compare this shot with those from June the 28th, 21st and 20th.
I suppose I will just have to enjoy everyone else's pictures.
Source: http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2015/07/my-view-of-cloudy-conjunction-of-venus.html
