The solar system - April 2011

Posted by MROCKENBACH
on Monday, May 2, 2011

Local: Caxias do Sul / Brazil

Telescope: Meade ETX 125 EC, camera Meade LPI plus barlow 2x - planets / Coronado PST double stacked - Sun h-alpha. Sky-Watcher 80mm ED - Moon ( camera Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS1.

All photos taken during the month of April 2011. Except Pluto that was only shown as a point. Jupiter with low resolution due to being near the horizon at dawn.  

Position of the planets as celestial chart published in Astronomy April 2011.

Top to botton:

Neptune 30 April / Uranus 24 April / far right Pluto point indicated / Jupiter 24 April / Mars 24 April / Venus 24 April / Sun H-Alpha 12 April / Mercury 24 April / Moon 29 April / Saturn 11 April.

Marcos L Rockenbach

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