[AZ-Observing] Re: Venus and the Pleiades
- From: Michael Collins <mcollins@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 10:32:44 -0700
On 2020-04-03 09:51, Paul Lind wrote:
Has anyone been following Venus as it approaches the Pleiades?. My program
shows that tonight it will be close to Alcyone, the brightest of the
Pleiades, and will be 7 magnitudes brighter. That's 2.5^7 or about 600 times
brighter. Does that sound right?
I've set my camera on a tripod out behind my house the past two nights.
A still and a short animation of a test sequence are at the links below.
I shot a much longer sequence last night, but haven't had time to do
much with the images yet.
Hoping for clear skies with clouds over the San Francisco peaks tonight.
https://tmckepsj.org/files/80D_20200401_215614.jpg
https://tmckepsj.org/files/2020-04-02.avi
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