Clear skies beckoned Wednesday (Dec. 28) in Rome, allowing the Virtual Telescope Project's Gianluca Masi to get busy with a year-end broadcast.
Masi caught the five planets in a single view using a panoramic"fish-eye" lens, which gives a 180-degree field of view of the sky. He also set up several zoom lenses on a telescope mounted on the roof of his house in Rome.
Fleeting Mercury was the greatest challenge as it is fast fading from view in a bright twilight sky, but Masi managed to just capture it in the fish-eye lens. Zooming was easier, he said,"as I could select the best camera/lens settings for each planet." Masi captured Venus and Mercury together,"showing in such a colorful sky just above the S-W horizon." Then he proceeded through the sky, capturing each of the planets in turn and even imaging the remaining two only visible in telescope or high-powered binoculars: Uranus and Neptune. You can see the entire"parade" in the gallery above.
"I'm already looking forward to the next cosmic show to bring to our community," Masi said; his next broadcast will be previewing the
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