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I got up early this morning to take a look and try to get photos. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were spectacular and quite visible. I never did see Mercury,
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I got up early this morning to take a look and try to get photos. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were spectacular and quite visible. I never did see Mercury, we had high humidity after rain last night and maybe that combined with the brightening dawn made it difficult.
Photographing these was a challenge. My widest non fisheye lens (18mm on APS-C sensor) just doesn't capture more than a couple of planets and the moon at a time. Saturn is way off high in the sky to the south while Venus, the Moon, and Mars are all to the east. I snapped off a panorama sequence but Lightroom wasn't able to automatically combine them so I'm going to be manually picking out control points in Hugin to try to get most or all of these into one image. I should have tried at least a couple of shots with the fisheye but I don't have much experience with that and was a little sleepy.