Venus and Jupiter at Dawn
Taken by Jimmy Westlake on August 18, 2014 @
Stagecoach, CO
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D700
Exposure Time: 30/10
Aperture: f/1.0
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2014:08:18 04:33:45
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Clouds almost foiled my view of the close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter this morning, but a few-second break in the clouds was all I needed to capture the attached image. I used an iOptron tracker and a 300 mm lens at f11 on a Nikon D700 set at ISO 800 for this 3-second exposure, taken at 5:33am MDT on 8/18/2014 from Stagecoach, Colorado.
In the image, you can easily see three of Jupiter’s giant moons: Europa and Io to the upper right and Ganymede to the lower left. Callisto is hiding at the edge of Jupiter’s glare just above Ganymede. In the upper left side of the image, a sprinkling of stars from the Beehive star cluster struggles to compete with the coming dawn. At the time, Venus and Jupiter were a mere 21.7 arcmin apart. It was quite spectacular.
Photographer's website:
http://www.jwestlake.com
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