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| The planet Mars shining brightly and apparently close to the waning gibbous Moon. - Tripod mounted Canon 600d DSLR with zoom lens at f=300mm. A stack of 4 x 1/640sec exposures at F5.6, and ISO800. Credit: Pip Stakkert. |
" The team was not scheduled to be imaging on the night of the 5th of September but Pip could not resist taking a few images of the planet Mars shining brightly next to the waning Moon. We hope to capture some images of the planet later in the month using the 127mm refractor. Mars and the Earth in their respective orbits come close in or around opposition approximately every 2 years. Mars will be closest this time in October and thankfully a little higher in the sky than either Jupiter or Saturn" - Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.
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