On the night of the 17th April, a beautiful conjunction between the Crescent Moon, the Pleiades (M45) and Venus took place in the Western twilight sky. I was at the Mudgee Star Party at the time, which had a lovely unobstructed view to the West. These images were captured with my Canon 40D sitting on [...]
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The Moon and the Pleiades (M45)
This image was taken at 7:30pm on the 17th April, when the Moon had a close grazing occultation of the Pleiades Star Cluster (M45). It was captured at the Mudgee Star Party, using my ED80, modded Canon 40D with WO 0.8x reducer. FL 480mm, f/6, ISO 320, 5 second exposure. Processed in Photoshop CS4. Thanks [...]
The M7 Open Star Cluster in Scorpius
Hi all The Open Cluster M7 (or Ptolemy’s Cluster) is situated in the constellation Scorpius, near the centre of the Milky Way. This image was taken at IISAC2009, early on the Saturday night before it clouded over. The Milky Way was setting in the West, and I captured 50 minutes of data on this object [...]
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