Venus, Pleiades, & Tracking a Lens Flare (Oops)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Date & Time:
10-April-2023, 9:27-9:42pm MDT (Note: This is the Corrected Date)
Addendum:
Venus does move a bit indicating I most likely processsed a lens flare reflection!
Original Thought:
So my wife and I were vacationing in Santa Fe staying with her sister and brother-in-law whose house happens to border Santa Fe National Forest. I brought my wide angle portable setup and saw that Venus was very close to M45, The Pleiades Cluster, and decided to see if I could get a decent image before it went behind a tree. I did have the 200mm Canon Lens but not the counter weight for the iOptron Skyguider Pro or guidescope so exposures would have to be limited to 15 seconds. I managed to get twenty seven exposures which correlates to six minutes and forty five seconds so I was not expecting much but when I looked at the raw data on the computer I saw what looked like a small comet.
I did some checking but could not find any information about a comet in this region. In addition, the amount of movement in the almost seven minutes seemed fast (approximately 0.8 degrees in 6-minutes). Another thought I had was a meteor but it would be too slow for it to be that. Lastly, if you look closely, the object appears as three broken fragments but I am not positive of this as the single exposures show it as one unit. If this is the case then the breakup may be just an artifact from the comet Alignment function in PixInsight.
Addendum:
Venus does move a bit indicating I most likely processsed a lens flare reflection!
That's nice 👍.
Thank you! Cheers!
Cool Beanz!
Thanks, lens flares are cool!