Venus, Saturn, Moon and Regulus

[Bokmakierie]

Tonight (19 June) was a beautiful and crisp Winter evening and quite dark by 19:00. At 20:00 I used my Sony Cybershot T10 on a tripod and with the self timer took this image of Venus, Saturn, the Moon and Regulus all in a nice row. I used the "high sensitivity" setting of the camera which set the ISO at 1000. Unfortunately the Moon was overexposed and I had to adjust the brightness and contrast of the moon and also of the planets and star. To achieve this, I used Microsoft Picture-It and cut the moon out of the picture but left it in the image. I could now adjust the brightness and contrast of the moon and the planets and star separately.
You might have to scroll the image upwards to see all.
Hope you like it.

Phil

[Bokmakierie]

Here is a Stellarium screenshot confirming the relative position of the 4 heavenly bodies

Phil

[JAICOA]

Phil real nice got four birdies with one shot. A Beautiful event to see last night here it was the first time in a long time i seen a clear night and this event stood out well. Thanks Phil and Clear Skies

[AutoClub]

Hi Phil - great image! Thanks for posting it! I tried doing this last night (Monday), and ended up with an overexposed Moon as well. I tried taking multiple pictures (30-50 or so at a time), hand holding my camera. However, when I fed this mess into RegiStax, it had a hard time aligning the images. I may have to go into PhotoShop and do a manual alignment (Ugh!), and then let RegiStax try it again.

I shot most of my images at ISO 3200, and knew they would end up with considerable noise. That's why I had wanted to capture a bunch of them and then stack them. I'll see what I end up with when I get a chance to process them, perhaps later this week.

By the way, the Moon is going to occult Regulus this evening, around 5:00 p.m. PDT (broad daylight! ). I don't know if I'll be home from work in time to even get a visual on this with a set of binoculars.

Clear skies!

Paul

[andyschlei]

I saw the conjunction last night just as the clouds came in. Great picture Phil!

[paul f. campbell]

Hi Phil. Great capture. Like the rest cloudy and rain. later Paul

[astropixie]

i posted some sunset pictures from june 16th here with la luna, bright venus, saturn and regulus evenly spaced.

i managed to get a couple of the moon and venus last night (here).

unfortunately i was clouded out tonight.