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Old 07-08-2010, 11:06 PM
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All the planets imaged within 4 hrs!

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
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