Astroblog: The Line-up of Mars, Saturn and Spica, August 14, 2012

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Line-up of Mars, Saturn and Spica, August 14, 2012


The line-up of Mars, (middle) Saturn (right) and the star SPica (left) imaged on 14 August 2012 at 8:35 pm ACST from Adelaide, Australia. Image taken with a Canon IXUS at ASA 400, 15 second exposure. (click to embiggen)	The line up on 9 August, with a cosmos satellite shooting through the arrangement (click to embiggen), In this and the following images (all 3x Zoom, 15 secs exposure ASA 400) you can see how the planets move together.

11 August	12 August

14 August

Labels: astrophotography, Conjunction, Mars, Saturn

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 10:57 pm

Comments:

lucky! we got nothing but clouds in sydney...
cynthia

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:57 pm

We could observe this from Melbourne last night (14th). So brilliant to be able to see the clear sky right after an evening rain!! Thank you for all the information. I'll be regularly checking on your blog for more exciting news.

# posted by

J : 8:20 am

It still looked good last night and tonight !

# posted by

JupiterIsBig : 10:38 pm