Venus joins Pleiades
Taken by Noeleen Lowndes on March 31, 2020 @
Gold Coast Qld Australia
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 70D
Exposure Time: 5/1
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 400
Date Taken: 2020:03:31 23:43:49
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Venus is now getting closer to the pretty open star cluster the Pleiades; just above the Pleiades (M45) is the other very open star cluster in the constellation of Taurus (The Bull) called the Hyades cluster. The bright orange red star is called Aldebaran and is known as the eye of the bull, it’s unrelated to the Hyades star cluster and much closer to us than the other stars in the group, it’s over 150 times brighter than our Sun!
The sky is very light here in Australia at 6.30pm and I’m only just able to take these pictures with Venus now in the twilight zone…
My images were taken with a Canon 70D camera and a Tamron 18-400mm lens, first & second image taken with lens set at 22mm, 5-second exposure and ISO400. Third image taken with lens set at 70mm and cropped, 4-second exposure and ISO400. Fourth image is a quick shot taken with a Canon GX7 Mark 11 to show how light the sky was and all the streetlights outside my place…it was just amazing I got anything at all in my images☺
Photographer's website:
https://http://www.mystardustobservatory.com
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