Last night it was unexpectedly clear, and it was also greatest elongation for Mercury which I had never imaged before. I rushed home and threw my (warm) telescope in the car and went to a park with a low western horizon (Mercury waits for no one).
After shooting Mercury and then Venus, I realized I had a chance to get all 5 traditional planets at the same time, so I kept going. I'm sure I would have gotten better results if I could have cooled the telescope first, and I also rushed processing these images this morning, but here they are: 5 planets at the same scale with the same orientation (with altazimuth mount setup) as they appeared last evening.
-Joe
After shooting Mercury and then Venus, I realized I had a chance to get all 5 traditional planets at the same time, so I kept going. I'm sure I would have gotten better results if I could have cooled the telescope first, and I also rushed processing these images this morning, but here they are: 5 planets at the same scale with the same orientation (with altazimuth mount setup) as they appeared last evening.
-Joe
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