Conjunction
Taken by Rick Stankiewicz on January 6, 2018 @
South of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 60D
Exposure Time: 4/1
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 1250
Date Taken: 2018:01:06 07:27:17
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Beautiful Morning Conjunction!
It was worth the effort getting all bundled up at 6:00 a.m. today to try and capture this close conjunction of Jupiter and Mars high in the southern sky. Mind you, at -28C it was very difficult to keep my fingers warm enough to function with the camera controls at this temperature, especially with the wind that with the windchill felt like -36C! The first couple shots show Jupiter and mars about 1/4 degree apart and to their right is the double star of Libra, Zubenelgenubi. Nice grouping!
My last shot was a close-up with my 200mm lense setting and though I was not tracking for this shot, it still captured the 4 Jovian satellites as they would appear in binoculars, trailing out from the right side of Jupiter's disk (Io,Europa, Ganymede & Callisto).
I was using a Canon 60D camera and Canon 18-200mm lense at ISO 1250 f/4.0-5.6 and from 4 to 2 seconds.
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