Date Time: May 26, 2013 2100-2200hrs
Weather: 8 degrees Celsius, no wind, humid, mainly cloudy except for narrow breaks in rain clouds. Clouds did not seem to move.
Equipment: Canon DSLR camera, 18-55mm and 75-300mm lenses, tripod, images processed on photobucket.com
Objective: To image the Jupiter-Venus-Mercury conjunction.
Report: It rained for the last 5 days straight with absolutely no breaks in the clouds, however, the clouds started to breakup on Monday May 26. Went down to the beach and there were very narrow bands of slightly clear skies. After about 10 minutes of seeing no planets or stars, a bright 'star' shone through between the clouds. After a few minutes another, dimmer planet appeared slightly to the left of where the first planet was seen. By this time, the first planet went behind the clouds.
A few images were taken at this time, until the slow moving clouds covered this planet. Was not sure at this time which planet it was, but after looking on the astronomy.com star-dome, it was determined that that the planet to the left was Jupiter and to the right and lower in the sky was Venus. Mercury was not seen, according to the star-dome, it should have been above Venus.
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| Interesting cloud formation |
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| Cloudy skies make it hard to see conjunctions |
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| Two of the three conjunction planets showed up in this image |
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