Venus and Uranus, 13 May 2014
Here are the planets Venus and Uranus in the dawn sky this morning (May 13th), At the time they were separated by about 3.5 degrees, but the gap will reduce to about 1.3 degrees on the 16th May.
With apparent magnitudes of -3.94 and 5.92, respectively, Venus appears 8800 times brighter than Uranus!
Notice the blue/green colour of Uranus.
This is 10 x 1 sec exposures with my 70-200 f/4L at 200mm f/5, 1600 iso; stacked using DeepSkyStacker and processed in LR5.
Venus and Uranus, 13 May 2014
Here are the planets Venus and Uranus in the dawn sky this morning (May 13th), At the time they were separated by about 3.5 degrees, but the gap will reduce to about 1.3 degrees on the 16th May.
With apparent magnitudes of -3.94 and 5.92, respectively, Venus appears 8800 times brighter than Uranus!
Notice the blue/green colour of Uranus.
This is 10 x 1 sec exposures with my 70-200 f/4L at 200mm f/5, 1600 iso; stacked using DeepSkyStacker and processed in LR5.