Daylight Planets

[shahgazer (Shah)]

Hi all,

This is my latest effort capturing Solar System objects in broad daylight.

Blessed with good clean sky today, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury were captured around 12.10pm-12.30pm in the afternoon.

Seeing wasn't great this time, thus we have that fluffy Jupiter. Mercury was surprisingly easy to spot, despite it was located about 5º 14' from the Sun!

Towards late evening, the Moon was imaged about 5.50pm. Saturn was a tougher to get mostly due to clouds. Only when around 6.20pm did I managed to get it between the clouds.

Local sunset time was 7.30pm

All image were taken using Skywatcher 120ED, running on EQ6 mount, controlled via Cartes du Ciel. IMG132e camera used. Stacked via Autostakkert, and extensive post-processing and cleanup in PixInsight.

Original file at flickr

[RB (Andrew)]

Well done Shah, nice one !

RB

[Chif (Andrew)]

Those are amazing! I imagine a lot of work went into them

[N1 (Mirko)]

Well done Shah. Mercury is impressive, considering where it is at the moment. But yes, when you know where to look, it's easy to spot.

Agree about Jupiter - usually looks better. Saw several cloud bands easily in the dob around lunchtime on Sunday.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Nicely done during the day, not always easy to do :-)

[Camknox (Cameron)]

This is a truly awesome sight. Very impressive!

[Somnium (Aidan)]

that is fantastic, i have been thinking about this for the last couple of weeks, wondering if it would be possible. clearly it is if you have got the skills well done !