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Mercury and Venus – 4/2/2010

Mercury and Venus at sunset on April 2, 2010. The two planets were suppose to be even closer together in the sky on Saturday night, but heavy clouds in the west only allowed Venus to shine through. Here is a shot I got of the two on Friday evening at sunset. This photo was taken [...]

Trying out some prime focus photos

Tonight is the first night I have been able to try out the T-Connector and T-Ring that attaches my Nikon D60 to my Celestron C8 SCT scope. It was a nice night early on, cold and fairly clear to the East and directly over head. By about 9:00 PM there were some clouds moving in [...]