Venus approaching Uranus

Hi all,

Here's the planet Venus approaching the planet Uranus in the dawn sky over the last four mornings, as viewed from Brisbane. Since Venus is much closer than Uranus, it's position changes much more quickly against the background stars. It also appears about 8800 times brighter than Uranus at the moment.

Note the blue/green colour of Uranus which the camera has picked up nicely!

To create this image, I took 10 x 1 sec exposures using a tripod-mounted 50D and 70-200mm f/4L (at 200mm, f.5 and 1600iso) on each of the 4 days, and these were stacked using DeepSkyStacker and processed using LR5 to produce a decent image for each day. The 4 images were then combined using GIMP.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/nm81​MZ

S.R.M. wrote in post #16908170
Hi all,

Here's the planet Venus approaching the planet Uranus in the dawn sky over the last four mornings, as viewed from Brisbane. Since Venus is much closer than Uranus, it's position changes much more quickly against the background stars. It also appears about 8800 times brighter than Uranus at the moment.

Note the blue/green colour of Uranus which the camera has picked up nicely!

To create this image, I took 10 x 1 sec exposures using a tripod-mounted 50D and 70-200mm f/4L (at 200mm, f.5 and 1600iso) on each of the 4 days, and these were stacked using DeepSkyStacker and processed using LR5 to produce a decent image for each day. The 4 images were then combined using GIMP.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

Venus closing in on Uranus by mudge.stephen, on Flickr

Very nice captures and processing.

the jimmy wrote in post #16908735
Very nice captures and processing.

Thanks! It's amazing to see how far Venus moves each day. You can see why the ancients referred too the planets as "wanderers"!