Conjunction of the Moon and Venus May 19, 2007


Photo 1 photo 2
8:22:07 PM EDT Saturday
  1/125 second
9:11:17 PM EDT Saturday
 6 seconds
  9:12:58 PM EDT Saturday
1/60 second

Photography Data:
Stellarvue SV80S TMB Triplet APO refractor telescope, 480mm focal length, f/6
with TeleVue TRF-2008 0.8x Reducer/Flattner, 384mm focal length, f/4.8
Canon 20D DSLR, ISO 200, 6 megapixels (taken at 4.3 megapixels)
Ulead PhotoImpact 11 software used to scale pictures.

Equipment
  I used a Stellarvue SV80S APO triplet refractor attached to a Astro-Physics 900 GTO mount in tandem with a Meade 12" LX200R.   The observatory is from Sirius observatories of Australia.
Telescopes


Meade LX200R (blue telescope)
304mm (12"
Advanced Ritchey-Chrétien
3048mm focal length f/10

Stellarvue SV80S
(white telescope)
 80mm (3.1") TMB triplet APO refractor
480mm F.L. f/6


Astro-Physics 900 GTO equatorial mount

Sirius Home model o
bservatory, 7 1/2 feet diameter

Conjunction Information
  
Charts showing position of the Moon, Venus and surounding stars.
Sky chart


June 3, 2007