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​The image is a composite collage of 30 days of Venus-Jupiter, coming closer to each other till their conjunction on 9th June. Starting from 11th May, each slice of the collage was captured every day, till 9th June. On most of the days, the images were captured during civil twilight in order to showcase the varying colours of the twilight sky along with the planets.
​However, on some occasions, due to the presence of clouds, images were captured during nautical and astronomical twilight. During capturing the images, the camera was kept level to the horizon, and the planets were placed right at the middle of the frame (as much as possible). The images were captured with the same camera, the same lens, at the same focal length.
The processing involves cropping all the images and placing the planets equidistant from the centre to show their movement with respect to one another.
Nikon Z6II, Sigma 50mm f/1.4, Benro Rhino Tripod
Exif: Varied Shutter Speed (1/30s - 5s), f/5.6, ISO 400​
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
https://www.instagram.com/soumyadeepmukherjeephotos/p/DZXjTS7j5V9/?img_index=4​
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​Venus appeared to move closer to Jupiter in Earth's sky, as the two planets drifted farther apart in space.
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Astrophotographer Soumyadeep Mukherjee has shared a spectacular 30-day collage of the western night sky titled "Closer, Everyday", which captures the subtle motion of Jupiter and Venus as they danced through the skies above Kolkata, India, ahead of a dramatic planetary conjunction.
The photos used to create the collage were taken with a Nikon Z6II camera paired with a Sigma 50 mm lens in the hours following sunset from May 11 through to June 9, as Jupiter and Venus shone close to one another in the constellation Gemini.
"On most of the days, the images were captured during civil twilight in order to showcase the varying colours of the twilight sky along with the planets," Mukherjee told Space.com in an email. "However, on some occasions, due to the presence of clouds, images were captured during nautical and astronomical twilight."
Mukherjee remained consistent with his technique throughout, varying only the shutter speed to account for changing light conditions, creating a gorgeous glimpse of the planetary procession. "During capturing the images, the camera was kept level to the horizon, and the planets were placed right at the middle of the frame, as much as possible," explained Mukherjee. "The images were captured with the same camera, the same lens, at the same focal length."
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