Venus at Greatest Brilliancy
Taken by Alan Dyer on November 30, 2018 @
near Gleichen, Alberta
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D750
Exposure Time: 6/1
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2018:11:30 07:54:58
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If Venus looks even brighter these mornings than usual, there's a reason. Venus is now at its point of "greatest brilliancy" or "greatest illuminated extent" as a morning star for the current dawn apparition. It is now shining at a magnificent magnitude -4.9 in the dawn twilight.
This was the view from home in southern Alberta on the morning of November 30, the day before the official date of greatest brightness. The waning crescent Moon off camera higher in the sky provides the illumination and the sparkles in the snow. Spica shines just to the right of Venus.
This is a stack of 4 x 6 second exposures for the ground to smooth noise and one 6-second exposure for the sky, all with the Nikon D750 at ISO 800 and Sigma 24mm Art lens at f/2.8.
Photographer's website:
http://www.amazingsky.net
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