25 Jun
2007
25 Jun
'07
2:23 p.m.
On 25 Jun 2007, at 11:46, Kurt Fisher wrote:
In the sunset western sky, Venus and Saturn are about 3.8 degrees apart - sufficient for a telephoto lens wide-angle photograph.
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This will decrease to within a single 1 deg eyepiece view on June 30.
Looks like at closest approach Saturday evening the two will be 41' apart. If memory serves, the maximum FOV of the Andy refractor is something like 40 to 45'. I'm thinking, just for fun, I might trundle over to SPOC Saturday evening and see if I can see both planets in the same field of view. Anyone care to join me? pw p.s. 'Course the planetary pairing I'm really looking forward to is the one in 2020 when Jupiter and Saturn will be all of 8' apart!