When is closest approach, and what will people be using to observe both in same view? Binoculars or small scopes with wide eyepieces?
Jupiter Venus within 2 deg
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faackanders2
, Jan 21 2019 10:34 PM
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Fly Me to the Moon
Posted 21 January 2019 - 10:34 PM
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Skylab
Posted 21 January 2019 - 10:47 PM
Check Stellarium of Sky Safari, but it looks like it is tomorrow a.m. Jan 22.
They will still be a couple of degrees apart, so binoculars or really wide field scope.
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Vanguard
Posted 22 January 2019 - 05:08 PM
I saw them naked eye on my way out the door for work this morning. Bright, unmistakable close pairing.
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Posted 22 January 2019 - 07:42 PM
They looked awesome about 6:00 this morning, May be too far apart for a scope, unless a short focal length scope and an extra wide low power eyepiece.
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Posted 22 January 2019 - 10:03 PM
Spectacular sight in 17x70 binoculars this morning!
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Posted 22 January 2019 - 11:00 PM
They looked awesome about 6:00 this morning, May be too far apart for a scope, unless a short focal length scope and an extra wide low power eyepiece.
Venus is cute but I will not ruin my sleep for her any more, so I waited till 11 AM and saw both Venus and Jupiter in the same FOV with 60mm f6 scope and 31mm Nagler eyepiece.
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Posted 23 January 2019 - 05:41 PM
When is closest approach, and what will people be using to observe both in same view? Binoculars or small scopes with wide eyepieces?
I saw Jupiter and Venus together in one field of view just the other morning in my 12x50 Pentax SP WP binoculars.
Edited by Miranda2525, 23 January 2019 - 05:42 PM.
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Dave Mitsky
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Posted 24 January 2019 - 03:52 AM
I took these two shots around 6:20 a.m. EST on Tuesday morning using a hand-held Canon SX720 HS in the NightScene mode. Venus and Jupiter were just a shade over two degrees apart at the time.
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Posted 24 January 2019 - 07:51 PM
Venus and Jupiter imaged on January 21 at 6:50 am EST (1150 UT).
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Posted 31 January 2019 - 08:38 AM
And this morning, the Moon got in on the action.
I was standing in the driveway this morning in slippers, fuzzy pants and a parka at -25 C. If you're going to photograph the sky in extreme conditions, I cannot recommend pants (highly enough).
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Posted 31 January 2019 - 01:50 PM
Nice pic, tchandler!
I got up this morning to let the dogs out and check the fire and was impressed by the same sight so I grabbed a coat and my camera to snap this pic.
Camera is a Canon T5i. Temperature was 2F/-17C.
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