We arrived at the parking lot at Horseneck beach, prior to sunset and set up our cameras.. I was using a wide angle lens, a 17-35 mm, that was set on manual focusing and I had focused at an object fire in the distance to make sure everything was in focus. I had set my lens to an f-stop of 4.5, the camera also was on manual, single shot, and I attached a remote release. My ISO was 800, and my shutter speed varied depending on my histogram.
As the sky darkened, after sunset, the first object that appeared was a crescent moon, followed by Venus, which was below the moon, and then Jupiter appeared to the left of the moon.
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Planets and Moon over Bath House |
Other sky events that are coming up in March: Mars, (in the East) which will be the brightest around March 4; Venus and Jupiter will be the closest in mid-March. On March 12 and 13th Venus and Jupiter will only like 3° apart and will look like headlights in the sky. An interesting side to this conjunction of Venus and Jupiter was this was the event that occurred in 2 B..C., known as the Star of Bethlehem.
Big Dipper and Polaris |
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