Venus and Mercury

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Conn Buckley
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Venus and Mercury

Post by Conn Buckley » Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:04 pm

Tonight was clear and I tried to capture Venus and Mercury. I used the Canon 400D on a tripod and this is a 5 Sec. exposure at 100 asa with the basic 55mm lens at F5.6.
url:http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/452 ... b2.jpg:url
Venus had about 92% of it's disc illuminated whereas Mercury had only about 21% of it's disc illuminated.

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