Letterbox View of Mercury and Venus Setting Close Together
Taken by Peter Lowenstein on July 16, 2016 @
Mutare, Zimbabwe
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Following reports that Mercury and Venus were due to set close together on 16 July, it was hoped to have a good view of this from Mutare. Unfortunately a blanket of cloud moved in from Mozambique and by mid-afternoon there was almost complete cover. However just after sunset some clearing of the sky to the west allowed bright sunset reflections to develop under the local cloud base followed by the opening of a thin strip of open sky on the horizon (second and third images). I therefore decided to focus my camera on this on the off-chance that a glimpse of either Mercury or Venus could be obtained. To my amazement and against all odds, a letterbox view of both Mercury and Venus setting within a minute and short distance of each was obtained. This is presented in the accompanying animated GIF which was compiled from a time-lapse sequence of 26 photographs taken a few seconds apart between 17.52 and 17.54 LT. A tripod mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 camera in sunset mode with up to x 60 zoom magnification was used. The only post-processing required was to register the images to reduce jitter caused by slight camera movement between frames.
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