Thursday 17 July 2008

Venus/Moon conjunction


Possibly my first astrophotograph ever, which I recently found in an old photo wallet and scanned in. It's dated 29 December 2000, with a time of 18.00. A quick glance at a SkyMap Pro chart for that time shows Venus with a phase of 60% and the Moon with a phase of 14%, and suggests the two star visible between the overexposed Venus and the Moon are Delta and Gamma Capricorni.

The shot was taken with an Olympus OM2 and a 300mm telephoto lens, 1 second exposure at f5.6 on Kodak Gold 200.

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