Upcoming Conjunctions with the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter in May 2011

[alphamone]

I got a couple of shots of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter (and i may just have gotten a moon of jupiter, not too sure) this morning. Mars was just too low to the horizon to get into the picture from my location though. I will probably upload them later.

[cookie8 (Vincent)]

On the Friday 13th Conjunction, there was a star fairly bright between Mars and Venus. I believe its in Pisces. Can anybody able to identify the star??

[Liz]

Absolutely Vincent, its in Pisces, and is Hip 8198 per stellarium.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Vincent, according to Simbad it has 30 names, of which the most recognisable are:

omi Psc
110 Psc
GSC 00622-00574
HD 10761
HIC 8198
SAO 110110
TYC 622-574-1

I've identified most of the stars using the SAO catalog in my image here.

Andrew

[noswonky (Peter)]

Here's a video I shot of the conjunction on the morning of May 12th....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjCALYr89U

[hickny (Peter)]

Here is the best of my photos taken on 13th May from the front verandah in the inner west of Sydney.

[zardos123 (Brad)]

i tried a few nights including last night here are a few
regards brad

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent Brad! Love those.
Catherine Hill Bay is a lovely spot.

[madwayne (Wayne)]

I have been missing in action for the past 12 months, the weather, buying a house and generally doing anything but astro have all played their part but a recent trip to Mudgee at SASI's annual members star party has got me hooked again.

Here a couple of conjunction photos. The first is among the vines in Mudgee on Sunday 1 May just before sunrise. The second was taken Saturday 14 May from Monteray on the banks of Botany Bay shooting toward Port Botany.

Interesting to see just how far the planets move on what is essentially a small time frame.

Enjoy and thanks for looking.

Wayne

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice photos Wayne! welcome back!

[iceman (Mike)]

Had a write-up in the local paper yesterday

They interviewed me over the phone last week.

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Had a write-up in the local paper yesterday

They interviewed me over the phone last week.

ROFL - well now we know your Malin entry Mike

[mork (Pieter)]

I posted a few more shots from from Wollongong taken this Sunday morning for you to look at at http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/25160...piter?h=b06d67

Regards,
Pieter

[Liz]

Lovely images Pieter, a lovely morning at the beach.
Jupiter is certainly scooting along now.

[mork (Pieter)]

Thanks Liz.

It was a particularly fine morning and its a great spot.

There is a rock pool there where I swim every morning, typically start at about 6:00. Its been really interesting watching the planets jockey for position over the past 4 weeks.

Thank you to the Ice In Space folk for giving me the "heads up" that this was happening.

Regards,
Pieter

[luigi]

I have setup a special gallery on my website for the Conjunctions:

http://www.luisargerich.com/may2011

Weather has been (is) really bad here in Buenos Aires, I missed several nice configurations of the planets but will try to get what I can while it lasts.
I've been waking up at 5am and returning home with nothing for several days...

[Liz]

They are bful images Luis.

I glanced out the window this am but cloudy, so back to sleep. Good on you for still trying, as Jupiter wont be in that set for much longer.

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent Luis, really nice colours.

[Mariner (Frank)]

Hi All,
I have been looking the great pics. THought I would submit a couple of mine as I haven't seen any posted with all four planets on the 12th yet.
A caveat though..... I am a very average photographer and don't really know what I am doing that much with regards to this field of endeavour - lots of unbridled enthusiam and playing around with exposure times and aperture a bit.

I have compressed these files down to about...nothing but you can still see good colour in Mercury. In a few of them you can see Mars near the eaves of my house. Uranus was up there somewhere, but I couldn't even get it through a scope...

regards,F.

[Liz]

Nicely done Frank.

Will be sad to see these guys separate, and go their own way.