{"id":9344,"date":"2021-01-10T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=9344"},"modified":"2021-01-13T21:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T01:13:45","slug":"9344","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2021\/01\/9344\/","title":{"rendered":"2021jan08 &#8211; 3 planet conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210108_172321_CanonT7i_1T125s_F5.0_f155.0mm_ISO1600.jpg-IMG_2828annotated-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210108_172321_CanonT7i_1T125s_F5.0_f155.0mm_ISO1600.jpg-IMG_2828annotated-294x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210108_172321_CanonT7i_1T125s_F5.0_f155.0mm_ISO1600.jpg-IMG_2828annotated-294x299.jpg 294w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210108_172321_CanonT7i_1T125s_F5.0_f155.0mm_ISO1600.jpg-IMG_2828annotated-1005x1023.jpg 1005w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210108_172321_CanonT7i_1T125s_F5.0_f155.0mm_ISO1600.jpg-IMG_2828annotated-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210108_172321_CanonT7i_1T125s_F5.0_f155.0mm_ISO1600.jpg-IMG_2828annotated-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210108_172321_CanonT7i_1T125s_F5.0_f155.0mm_ISO1600.jpg-IMG_2828annotated-1509x1536.jpg 1509w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210108_172321_CanonT7i_1T125s_F5.0_f155.0mm_ISO1600.jpg-IMG_2828annotated-2012x2048.jpg 2012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We searched out via google maps for a location with a good horizon to the southwest.  Tonight was going to be the first clear evening  in days.. weeks almost!<\/p>\n<p>We stayed outside in the -4C to -6C for about an hour waiting for  it to get dark enough.  The sun set was at 16:45 and we were on Bethel Road, very close to Rose-Maries brother?  The  view was almost perfectly to the horizon.. almost.<\/p>\n<p>Kim was using a telescope and binocs, I was using two DSLRs, one with a 300mm telephoto zoom lens and the other a 500mm f8 lens.<\/p>\n<p>The 500f8 did not work out at all.. much too dark\/slow for that and the old canon 300D camera.<\/p>\n<p>The telephoto zoom however worked quite well.  Jupiter was near mag -2, Mercury near -1 and Saturn near +1 with Jupiter highest at 5 deg 44min, then Saturn at 4 deg then Mercury at 1 deg 44 minutes above the horizon.. very very low.<\/p>\n<p>This is the best image to come out of that observing session, taken at 17:23 EST, the best combination of sky darkening and Mercury still being high enough not to go all atmospheric extinction on its <censored><\/p>\n<p>I used MS Paint to annotate the name, magnitude and altitude onto the image.. hmm. Once set you cannot go back and edit the text! Grr.<\/p>\n<p>We were going to head out again tonight, but the clear dark skies that were forecast, aren&#8217;t clear or dark.<\/p>\n<p>It was great! If not for the cold&#8230; getting too old for this *$@(&#038;@.  The sunset was gorgeous<\/p>\n<p>See the tweet from the field:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Awaiting darkness for Jupiter Saturn and Mercury <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tkYDp6rRIb\">pic.twitter.com\/tkYDp6rRIb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; kevin kell (@trekkerk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trekkerk\/status\/1347663546990145536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>20210108_172321_CanonT7i_1T125s_F5.0_f155.0mm_ISO1600.jpg-IMG_2828annotated.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We searched out via google maps for a location with a good horizon to the southwest. Tonight was going to be the first clear evening in days.. weeks almost! We stayed outside in the -4C to -6C for about an hour waiting for it to get dark enough. The sun set was at 16:45 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}