In the sunset western sky, Venus and Saturn are about 3.8 degrees apart - sufficient for a telephoto lens wide-angle photograph. Venus 9h 23m 4s +16° 37.0' Saturn 9h 38m 17s +15° 26.3' Venus 09 23 04 +16 37 00 Saturn 09 38 17 +15 26 20 Angular distance: 3.8 degs on 6/25. This will decrease to within a single 1 deg eyepiece view on June 30. - Kurt _______________________________________________ Sent via CSolutions - http://www.csolutions.net
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.
<snip>
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!
participants (2)
-
Kurt Fisher -
Patrick Wiggins