Mercury (below) and Venus in close conjunction in the evening twilight on Saturday, January 10, 2015, as shot from City of Rocks State Park New Mexico. I used the 135mm lens on the Canon 60Da for a single 1 second exposure at ISO 800 at f/2 to minimize trailing.
Mercury just below Venus in the desert twilight, and in close conjunction (about 1° apart), with Mercury climbing up to its greatest elongation. This is a 6-exposure high dynamic range (HDR) composite with exposures 1 stop apart, to record both the dark ground and bright sky. Tone mapped in HDRPro and Adobe Camera Raw. Images taken with the Canon 60Da and 35mm lens.
Mercury (below) and Venus in the evening twilight, from southern New Mexico. January 4, 2015. This is a high dynamic range HDR composite of 5 exposures, at 2/3 stop intervals, with the Canon 6D and 50mm lens.
