Bright planet montage, 2020-21
Capturing Mercury this month has allowed me to put together this montage of the five naked eye planets imaged through my Nexstar Evolution 9.25. Planets are shown with size relative to their apparent size on the capture date. Venus looks so big when it's a crescent! I hope to get a better image of Jupiter this year now that it's rising higher in the sky.
Saturn: mag +0.27, diameter 18.3"
Jupiter: -2.75, 47.6"
Mars: -2.52, 22.5"
Venus: -4.55, 49.3"
Mercury: +0.69, 8.7"
Bright planet montage, 2020-21
Capturing Mercury this month has allowed me to put together this montage of the five naked eye planets imaged through my Nexstar Evolution 9.25. Planets are shown with size relative to their apparent size on the capture date. Venus looks so big when it's a crescent! I hope to get a better image of Jupiter this year now that it's rising higher in the sky.
Saturn: mag +0.27, diameter 18.3"
Jupiter: -2.75, 47.6"
Mars: -2.52, 22.5"
Venus: -4.55, 49.3"
Mercury: +0.69, 8.7"