Photographing Proxima Centauri with New Horizons Parallax Program
Taken by Tom Harradine on April 22, 2020 @
Brisbane, Australia
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Camera Used: SONY ILCE-7S
Exposure Time: 1/25
Aperture: f/1.7
ISO: 65535
Date Taken: 2020:04:23 00:09:21
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Photographing Proxima Centauri from suburban Brisbane, Australia, at the same time as the New Horizons space probe, 11pm local time (13:00 GMT) 22nd April 2020.
At top left is a chart of the probe's expected camera view, at top right is the telescopic image I captured at 13:00 GMT. Cross reference with the chart to find Proxima Centauri - the closest star to our Solar System.
The bottom image is the camera setup (Canon EOS 70D attached to a Sky-Watcher 12" Dobsonian telescope) pointed at Proxima Centauri, with the out-of-focus Southern Cross and Pointers showing off their true colours.
Photographer's website:
https://www.facebook.com/tom.harradine.12
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