Venus and Mercury over Dundalk Bay - 2nd Feb 2007

Took this shot yesterday at 6.36pm. My camera - an Olympus C-460ZdelSol, was mounted on a tripod and the shot was taken using the camera's "night mode" which I estimate was a 2 second exposure. Anyway, despite the modest equipment, I'm quite pleased to have caught the two inner planets in the one frame.

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Pat Bellew

Hi pat,
well done on the image, it was great to get a look at venus and mercury like that, it's not very often we get we get a chance see them together,i was out looking at them until they set. it was great to view.

Good one Pat,
That's how I saw it during the week also, its really surprising to see Mercury so high, I don't remember seeing it this high for a long time now.

I think the number of Irish astronomers who have ever seen Mercury has gone up by a factor of 10x in the past week.