View of Venus & Jupiter pre-dawn of May 1

[Preetha Sreedharan]

I may be out at CAS pre-dawn ~ 4am to catch a less light polluted view of this event – here’s hoping the clouds are kind

[Sasha Green]

Are you going to be imaging or just viewing, I’m visiting CHCH for the weekend and I’m tempted to join you, but 4am is also very early haha

[Preetha Sreedharan]

I am going to be viewing but happy to see the results of others who are imaging 😀

4am is going to be very challenging but if someone else is gonna be there I will be more steadfast about it.

I’ll also check the webcam and weather report before leaving just to make sure that it won’t be cloudy or blowing gale force wind

[Rob Glassey]

I managed to get up early this morning (Sunday) to have a look, from home. My best view was at low power with my 70mm refractor. It was pretty wobbly at higher power in bigger scopes.

I did magage to get an image. This is a composite, processing different parts of the image seperately and at different exposures.

Used Autostaker 3 and Registax.

[Preetha Sreedharan]

Very nice. Hopefully others caught it too…I did manage to get out to CAS …at 415am no less! They looked amazing in that dark sky and through the Dob. The phone images are not great and too large to upload but at least photographic proof that I was there and did capture it 🤩

[Rob Glassey]

Wow! Well done.

I contemplated going out, but the convenience of the back yard (and the proximity to my bed) kept me at home.

It sure was a stunnng view!

I hope others saw it too.

[John Pickering]

Yeah – it was great to see.  I tuned the scope so I could see the 4 Galilean moons at the same time as the planets – blew out Venus, but never mind.

[Rob Glassey]

Nice!

It was a great morning all right 🙂

Yes, it’s a huge range of brightness, from -4.1 to +6.6. But getting them all still looks pretty good! The spikes on Venus gives it that extra punch.

Its a pretty rare sight, and it was clear!

 

 

 

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