By Victor Rogus | 2026-03-01
Four planets at Dusk
On 02/28/2026 06:47 pm by Steven Bellavia | Website | Surry, VA
The "once-in-a-lifetime planet alignment", from yesterday evening.
And technically, it was "once-in-a-lifetime" because the chances of these four planets aligning exactly like this again in my lifetime are very small.
I was not able to see Mercury, and of course Neptune, with my eyes. A single 1-second image revealed Mercury and a stack of 33 x 1-second exposures revealed Neptune. You might need a computer screen to see them in the image,
It was an amazing evening, again at Bacon's Castle, Surry VA, which has a good view to the western horizon. It was comfortable outside, and the peepers are already peeping.
Sigma 70-200mm Apo DG lens, at 70mm
Canon EOS SL3 camera
33 x 1-second exposures, ISO 200, aligned and stacked in Nebulosity with some multiscale adaptive intensity transformation in PixInsight