Mercury and Venus 1° 45' 03" Separation.

[AlexN]

Heres a photo I took this evening waiting for the full moon to rise (pics coming...)

The smaller image is the original file resized for forums, with 100% crops of each planet inserted into the image..

What makes it impressive enough to post on the internet you may ask? Well.. It was taken hand held, 600mm F/5.6 with a Canon 350D.

Going to give jupiter a shot later tonight... Just to see how it goes

[Jen]

nice pic Alex

[AlexN]

Thanks Jen

[Dennis]

Pushing the envelope again eh Alex! Nice work mate.

Cheers

Dennis

[AlexN]

i dunno about the envelope, but definitely my abilities...

I was actually pretty shocked that the full field of that lens only spans ~2° diagonally... Thats a pretty narrow field for a camera lens in my eyes...

[Matty P (Matt)]

Nice capture Alex, what makes even more impressive was that it was taken hand held.

Well done and thanks for sharing.