{"id":2605,"date":"2012-03-15T11:35:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2012-03-16T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:51:17","slug":"jupiter-venus-apparition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/jupiter-venus-apparition\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter &#038; Venus apparition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the series of nights where it has been clear, we&#8217;ve been home and able to do some imaging with our Canon Powershot A495 and A540 cameras on tripods.  In all of these images, Jupiter is the one on the left and is dimmer than Venus<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 February 20<\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-37.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-37.jpg\" width=200 align=right><\/a><\/p>\n<td>2 sec, f2.6, fl=5.8mm A540<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 February 25<\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120225-16.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120225-16.jpg\" width=200 align=right><\/a><\/p>\n<td> 0.5 sec, f2.6, fl=5.8mm A540<br \/>\n<br \/>The Moon  is the brightest object in the image<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 March 05<\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305a-35-jupiter-venus-mercury.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305a-35-jupiter-venus-mercury.jpg\" width=200 align=right><\/a><\/p>\n<td>1.0 sec, f3.1, fl=6.6mm A495<br \/>\n<br \/> Look for Mercury in the lower right, at it&#8217;s greatest elongation East (18 deg)<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 March 11<\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120311-42-jupiter-venus-64sec.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120311-42-jupiter-venus-64sec.jpg\" width=200 align=right><\/a><\/p>\n<td>64 sec, f2.6, fl=5.8mm A540<br \/>\n<br \/> The Hyades and the Pleiades are visible in the top left of this shot.  Note the star trailing from the untracked long 64 second exposure<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 March 14<\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-07-jupiter-venus-64sec.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-07-jupiter-venus-64sec.jpg\" width=200 align=right><\/a><\/p>\n<td>64 sec, f2.6 fl=5.8mm A540<br \/>\n<br \/> The Hyades and the Pleiades are visible in the top left of this shot.  Note the star trailing from the untracked long 64 second exposure<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"\/concam\/\">allsky camera<\/A> is at left.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 March 15<\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120315-25-jupiter-venus-15sec.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120315-25-jupiter-venus-15sec-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20120315-25-jupiter-venus-15sec\" width=\"200\" 0 class=\"size-medium wp-image-2618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120315-25-jupiter-venus-15sec-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120315-25-jupiter-venus-15sec-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120315-25-jupiter-venus-15sec-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120315-25-jupiter-venus-15sec.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td>15sec f2.6fl=5.8 A540<br \/>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the series of nights where it has been clear, we&#8217;ve been home and able to do some imaging with our Canon Powershot A495 and A540 cameras on tripods. In all of these images, Jupiter is the one on the left and is dimmer than Venus 2012 February 20 2 sec, f2.6, fl=5.8mm A540 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}