Not THAT Group Of Planets, THIS One

Tuesday, August 23, 2016


Arriving too late at a good observing site to view the close conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and Mercury in the west sky after sunset on Monday, August 22, 2016, I had an alternative. Gleaming in the SSW sky was another group of planets--and a red giant star in the constellation Scorpius. All three images were shot from the grounds at Echo Hill Presbyterian Church just north of Marion, Iowa, and were captured from 9:01-9:04 pm CDT. All are exposures of from 6-8 seconds at f/9, ISO 2500 and 34mm focal length, and feature foreground weeds light-painted by my cell phone flashlight. The three bright objects at center of the images are, bottom-to-top: red giant star Antares (apparent magnitude 1.03), planet Mars (-0.41) and planet Saturn (0.43). Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.



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