Mars and Piz Buin - Nightscapes - Digital Images of the Sky

Planet Mars
shines above the Piz Buin and Ochsentaler Glacier

Date:	09.09.2020	Time:	04:05 UT
Exposure:	10 s	Field:	74^o x 53^o
Camera:	Sony alpha 7sII	Optics:	f=24mm at 1/2.0
Place:	Wiesbadener Hut, Silvretta, Austria, 2450m	Photographer:	Till Credner

In autumn 2020 planet Mars is close to Earth and shines brightly and reddish in the night sky (top). The alpine landscape of the Silvretta is illuminated by a waning moon. On the left hand is the Piz Buin, highest peak of Vorarlberg, and in the center the Ochsentaler Glacier.