Saturday, June 30, 2007
Venus and Saturn together!
Venus and Saturn setting on the evening of Friday, June 29. Click image to enlarge it, Regulus is the brightish star above the pair near the top of the image.The dance of the planets climaxes tonight and tomorrow night (June 30th, July 1st) when Venus and Saturn are at their closest. Of course, most of southern Australia and the eastern seaboard are under cloud, or being flooded, or just recovering from floods, so viewing this event may not be easy.
Still, do make an effort, this is a fairly rare and attractive event. The best times to look are between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm (your local time), Venus will be very easy to recognise, being the brightest object in the north -west sky, Saturn will be the dimmer object only about a fingerwidth away. In a small telescope you can see both Saturn and Venus together in a lowpower objective. This will be very nice.
Also, tonight (Saturday June 30th) is a Blue Moon.
Labels: astrophotography, Blue Moon, Observational Astronomy, Saturn, Venus
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 7:40 am 
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