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The
Moon and Venus lined up in the evening sky on Tuesday 19 June 2007.
Saturn is just off the top of the image so my aim was slightly out. The
evening was very cold and I had to rush this photograph, shivering
whilst bracing the camera on the wobbly roof of the car in the school car park. I am now glad
that I tried to take this photograph as the sky rained out on the
following dates. I have also uploaded another very long exposure of this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/575615549/">Moon and Venus series</a> with the settings adjusted. It includes a very faint Saturn and trail from a plane that flew through the shot and annotations.
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I now notice that the time and date settings on
the digital camera are incorrect by two days (sigh) Somebody has been
fiddling with the settings again when I loaned the camera out so I had to guess and reset
these images manually. I used an opensource software package called <a href="http://www.stellarium.org/">Stellarium</a> to work out the extact date and time with a virtual planetarium.<br>
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Cripes it was cold that evening, was really glad to get back into the car.<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br>PS: Melbourne is lucky to be hosing Linux.conf 2008 at Melbourne Uni over January 2008. The <span style="text-decoration: underline;">
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span><a href="http://linux.conf.au/presentations">Call for Presentations</a> / papers is worth considering or even perhaps just tagging along to one of the preconference workshop activities. From the
<a href="http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2007/">2007 conference video webcasts</a>, they manage to get some very interesting people together for this conference.<br><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead