Saturday 30th of June 2007 | Mike Spicer
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JUNE 30 SATURN AND VENUS
The western horizon held a spectacular sight in the West: Venus less than one degree below Saturn. I imaged with a 135mm lens on the Digital Rebel at F/11 (putting spikes on Venus):
By taking very short exposures it was possible to obtain images of both planets that showed detail (the crescent of Venus and the disk and rings of Saturn), if I cut out most of the distance between them, thus:
