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Community photo entitled Venus with Jupiter & moons in the southern sky by Tom Tan on 06/11/2026 at Melbourne, Australia

Venus with Jupiter & moons in the southern sky

On 06/11/2026 06:08 pm by Tom Tan | Melbourne, Australia

Because of no tracking, I figure the limit is around 1 second only.
So I raised the ISO to 6400. The shutter speed here was 1/1.6 second.
No editing.

I not only wanted to show Venus was close together with Jupiter,
I also wanted to show it was really Jupiter. There was a line of four moons if you zoom in. The moon Io had moved into Europa's position so 1/1.6 second was the longest duration I could still show them apart.

This is the whole frame. There is no cropping.

William Optics 360mm telescope with APS-C 1.5x factor Nikon D7500 camera
mounted on a dovetail to balance on a tripod
remote shutter release
no star tracking

original frame compressed to size, no cropping, no editing, just JPG