Photographer:
Dr Alan Potts
Location of Photo:
Newport, South Wales, UK
Date/Time of photo:
4th April 2020, 20h 40m UTC
Equipment:
Static tripod, 300mm lens at f5.6, Nikon D3200 DSLR at 1600 ISO
Description:
Venus shines at magnitude -4.6 as it passes underneath the Pleiades star cluster on 4th April. Through a telescope the disc is 44.7% illuminated. The image is a stack of 69 subframes using DSS, each of 0.625s duration totalling 43s.
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