~ Conjunction of 3 day old crescent Moon with Venus in constellation of Virgo on the 14th September 2026 ~
I’m at my Stardust Observatory at Leyburn for the long weekend and this was the beautiful view just after sunset looking toward the western horizon.
You can see the 3-day-old crescent Moon is having a close conjunction with the planet Venus on the ecliptic; the star below the Moon is Spica (Alpha Virginis).
I’ve also zoomed in with the camera lens to get a closer view of the conjunction; images were taken with a Canon 70D camera and 18-400mm Tamron lens on a tripod.
I also took an image of Venus with the Meade 10inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with a ZWO ASI120 MC camera plus 3x Barlow lens attached. Captured a 3000-frame video, which was stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in Photoshop…what a beautiful evening it was :-)
I’m at my Stardust Observatory at Leyburn for the long weekend and this was the beautiful view just after sunset looking toward the western horizon.
You can see the 3-day-old crescent Moon is having a close conjunction with the planet Venus on the ecliptic; the star below the Moon is Spica (Alpha Virginis).
I’ve also zoomed in with the camera lens to get a closer view of the conjunction; images were taken with a Canon 70D camera and 18-400mm Tamron lens on a tripod.
I also took an image of Venus with the Meade 10inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with a ZWO ASI120 MC camera plus 3x Barlow lens attached. Captured a 3000-frame video, which was stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in Photoshop…what a beautiful evening it was :-)
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