Saturn and Venus Conjunction
Taken by Tom Harradine on January 9, 2016 @
Brisbane, Australia
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Date Taken: 2016:01:09 20:05:34
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This is an image of the conjunction between the planets Venus and Saturn today seen from Brisbane. They ended up passing 5 arcminutes (0.08 degrees) apart at 2:12pm local time. Here they are at 1:04pm and about 6 arcminutes apart. Viewing was extremely difficult due to the daylight sky with haze, and clouds, and the nearby Sun. It also didn't help that I started searching in a part of the sky 20 degrees away because my planetarium software (Stellarium) was set for a location in Northern Queensland for some reason - I had to use old fashioned sky scanning to pick up Venus in the viewfinder. Saturn was not visible to the eye and I could only see it on screen after some heavy image processing. The colours here are natural - Venus is a bright cloud-shrouded planet and Saturn is a golden colour and very faint because the Sun is so far away. The atmosphere was very unsteady with heatwaves so a clear image was not possible.
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