Hi all,
Inspired by Okiscopey's thread
here, I decided to have a go at capturing all the planets in one evening. I did it within 4 hrs without too much trouble, and as Mike suggests in the above thread, this must be a fairly rare occurrence.
The first image shows Mars, Saturn, Venus and Mercury above the Brisbane skyline at 6:12 pm. With the help of Stellarium I tracked down Neptune at 9:47pm (second image), and then a few minutes later got Jupiter (with its 4 Moons) and Uranus down near the horizon (3rd image).
I'm glad the IAU have downgraded Pluto's status, because that would have been well beyond reach of my tripod-mounted dSLR!
Quite a fun little project
. Anyone else planning to give it a go?
Cheers,
Stephen