Venus setting
Taken by Fred Espenak on May 27, 2020 @
Portal, AZ
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Camera Used: SONY ILCE-6000
Exposure Time: 1/60
Aperture: f/1.0
ISO: 500
Date Taken: 2020:05:28 09:59:52
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Since the early months of 2020, Venus has been a brilliant beacon in the evening sky after sunset. But the altitude of Venus is now rapidly decreasing each evening as the planet approaches inferior conjunction with the Sun (i.e., passing between Earth and Sun) on June 3.
Venus is also increasing in angular size as it comes closer to Earth while shrinking to a razor thin crescent.
All of this makes for a good opportunity to shoot a time sequence of the brilliant crescent Venus setting behind the Chiricahua Mountains as seen from my backyard in Portal, AZ.
This image sequence was taken through a Meade LX200 8-inch SCT telescope and a Sony A6000 mirrorless camera on the evening of May 27. Exposures were determined by metering. The interval between each Venus image is just 8 seconds.
Dark View Observatory, Portal, AZ.
Fred Espenak. www.astropixels.com
Photographer's website:
https://astropixels.com
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