I’m not sure if anyone else had noticed the alignment of bright planets and stars at the moment. In the west just after sunset. Best time for photographing them seems to be around 6:30-7pm. Probably by about 7:05ish Mercury is getting too low.
I first noticed it on Friday night when doing some photography near the Kent Street Weir. I then went for a cycle on Sunday arvo to Lake Leschenaultia to take some more pictures in a more scenic environment (I thought). Little did I know things would turn against me:
1) Clouds started coming in quick near sunset
2) People were using the lake right where I wanted to set up
3) Being a completely different season to when I last photographed astronomy objects from the lake the sun and planets were of course setting in a completely different place! I hadn’t planned on the earth tilting it’s axis.
4) To fit them all in the frame I had to wait for them to set low enough – 6:40ish. But the cloud was coming up from the west at the same time!
... all of which made for difficult framing of the subjects.
So, I don’t think it’s a very nice artistic frame, hence I’ve thrown the text on it of the object names, but it’s interesting to astronomy minded people all the same..
http://www.rogergroom.com/items/planets_at_sunset_25_july_2010
Roger.
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