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Mars Opposition 2010

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Mars at opposition & Moon at perigee on January 29th, 2010, at 8:20pm

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Image by Tom Thibault
This photo is a composite of two pictures taken with a Sony DSC-F707 camera using a 10x zoom. The picture of Mars was taken at f/2.4 aperture at a shutter speed of 1/10 set at ISO 100. The picture of the Moon was taken at f/6.3 aperture at a shutter speed of 1/1000 set at ISO 100. The final picture was combined and processed in PStudio, software provided by Sony. I took this picture out through my garage door, it was too cold and windy to go out to the scope that night, but I did enjoy this view for a short while and periodically checked it out during the evening to watch the two progress together across the sky from east to west.