Grasslands Observatory: The Planets |
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Transit of Venus, June 8 2004. This image was obtained by Tim
Hunter from Montreal, Quebec, as Venus was beginning to exit the
Sun. A Sony 2 megapixel CyberShot camera was held up to the 32mm
eyepiece of a Questar telescope. |
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Transit of Venus, June 8 2004. This image was obtained by Tim
Hunter from Montreal, Quebec, as Venus was beginning to exit the
Sun. A Sony 2 megapixel CyberShot camera was held up to the 32mm
eyepiece of a Questar telescope. |
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Venus at Inferior Conjunction. This is a frame from a
video taken by Derald Nye and James McGaha when Venus was 5.50 from the Sun and 0.4% illuminated. |
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Venus and the Pleiades on the evening of Thursday April 2, 2020. |
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Mars September 2003. This image of Mars was obtained by James
McGaha using a Philips TUCam Pro web camera mounted at the prime
focus of the Grasslands 24-inch f/5 telescope. |
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Mars and its Moons at 05:39UT 29 August 2003. This image was
obtained by James McGaha using a Philips TUCam Pro web camera
mounted on the NOAO 36-inch telescope at Kitt Peak National
Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. |
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Mars and its Moons at 06:32UT 29 August 2003. Note the different
position of the Moons of Mars compared with the above image
taken at 05:39UT. This image was obtained by James McGaha using
a Philips TUCam Pro web camera mounted on the NOAO 36-inch
telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson,
Arizona. |
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This image of Saturn was obtained by Tim Hunter and James McGaha
on January 27, 2007 using the Grasslands Observatory C-14
telescope at f/22 with a Philips TUCam Pro web camera. |
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Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn: Sunday December 20, 2020 - one day prior to closest approach. |
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