Planet Venus
Taken by Aleksander Trebacz on July 7, 2024 @
Oxford, UK
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 5DS
Exposure Time: 1/3200
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2024:07:09 16:10:32
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Sometimes it may happen that you accidentally photograph an object that you did not intend to capture. In the evening of July 7 this year. I photographed through a telephoto lens interestingly illuminated by the low-lying Sun - the tops of storm clouds located northwest of Oxford.
When I looked through the photos the next day, I noticed a tiny white dot in a completely cloud-free patch of the darkening sky. I guessed it was the planet Venus because I was checking its location that day. However, due to its close proximity to the Sun, I had not previously considered observing it. Let me remind you that Venus passed through a conjunction with the Sun a month earlier and is now only 9 angular degrees east of it. It was simply too close to be seen in the completely bright sky before sunset. It was only by chance that at the moment when Venus was 10 degrees above the horizon and the Sun was 4 degrees, it hid behind a storm cloud about 100 km away. The sky in the shadow of the cloud darkened and at the same time the planet found itself above the cloud in a zone of sufficiently shaded atmosphere. The most interesting thing is that the exposure time was extremely short - 1/3200 sec. (f400mm, F5.6, ISO 100) due to the brightly illuminated top of said cloud. I would never have imagined that it would be possible to photograph her in such circumstances. However, nature can constantly surprise you and that is the greatest thing!
However, here I must warn against trying to capture this planet in the sky in the vicinity of the Sun, because it is very dangerous for our eyes and equipment, unless we are extremely lucky as described above.
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