Planets 18th April, minus Saturn

[von Tom]

Here are the planets as captured yesterday morning and afternoon, at their relative apparent sizes. Cloud (again) came over to cover Saturn!

Tom

[von Tom]

Here's a couple of pics of the capture process - Canon EOS 600D and 12" SkyWatcher Dobsonian.

Tom

[asimov]

Nice work Tom! Wish I could get Venus & Mercury but trees & houses forbid it.

[cybereye]

A fantastic montage - I especially like seeing Mercury.

Cheers,
Mario

PS Saturn was my main target last night, damn clouds! :mad2:

[asimov]

Better come to Bundy Mario! Clear again now & hopefully it stays that way for Saturn..Going by the satellite, you might be lucky tonight in Brissie; Might have to do a bit of 'sucker holeing' though.

[StephenM]

A nice compilation Tom. Shame the clouds prevented you from capturing Saturn as well!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Clayton]

Nice work again Tom :)

[lepton3]

Nice grab, Tom. Shame you missed the full set. You haven't got much time if you do aim to get all 5 planets on the same night!

Not to hi-jack the thread, but in a previous life I used to do computer chip design. When I started, CMOS was an emerging technology. Soon, it was all there was. Seeing your results, and the shot showing the preview screen on the Canon 600D (which uses a CMOS sensor), it strikes me that the age of CMOS planetary cams is surely soon to be upon us.

-Ivan

[naskies]

Nice images and montage!