conjunctions (Bon Echo)

Colourful sunset again. Some wispy clouds.

• location: Bon Echo provincial park
• Joeperry Lake backcountry canoe-in site #524

I photographed the Moon at approximately 8:20pm.

I noticed Venus at 8:24pm. It's about 7° right of the Moon tonight.

Spotted Jupiter at 8:40pm. Looks like it is a little further left from Venus... Maybe 21°.

Photographed the conjunction with the Pentax body, Kodak 200 ASA print film, with the 28mm and 55mm lenses, from 1/30th of a second to down to a full second.



I also photographed the planets with my cheap digital camera. At first glance the pictures look pure black. But I let Fireworks perform an AutoLevels and voila! Hopefully, the silver-oxide versions will come out better. Still, I'm amazed that Jupiter and Venus even show up...

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Continued exercises to memorise Greek alphabet.

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Tomorrow, I'll go into town, jack into the net, and learn how the Shuttle astronauts faired.