Astrophotography

[CptTrips]

Some of you may have been noticing the last few nights the close conjuction of the Moon and the planets Venus, Jupiter in the SouthWestern evening sky.  (If you haven't been socked in with clouds.  )

The skies cleared up nice this evening and I shot this right after work tonight.

For big screens:
http://jasonirby.net/BitBucket/01DEC08/Moon_Venus_Jupiter_01DEC08.png

For small screens:
http://jasonirby.net/BitBucket/01DEC08/Moon_Venus_Jupiter_01DEC08_sm.png

Clear Skies,
Wab

[allaire]

Very nice man.

[ghi]

nice pics!
I seen a documentary about the Magi , birth of Jesus and Star of Bethehem described in the Bible, astronomers calculated that was a conjunction Jupiter - Venus around year 1-2 BC , were so close together that they looked like one very unusual bright star visible after dawn.
 i think planetary conjunctions are warnings and markings in time flow,preplanned and  signaling mostly  bad events and changes in history:, like today my transmission starts leaking

[drdeathx]

My moon is nicer!

[DiabloTX]

"ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE"

[mbailey]

Great pics Wab   

[Eagler]

what camera / settings did you use?

tripod? timer / remote?

great shot!

[CAVPFCDD]

that is so awsome, i didn't know that was europa next to jupiter, isnt that one of it's moons?

I saw on the news last night about this, and i could see both the planets before it was even dark outside, went and got my telescope, just too cool, love it when things like this happen

  thank you for sharing! 

[Denholm]

Wow, that's incredible. I wish my sister's digital camera picked up details of that sort. Her's couldn't even pick up the planets next to the moon (No, not because of glare).

[CptTrips]

what camera / settings did you use?

tripod? timer / remote?

great shot!

Thanks.

That was a Canon 10D on a tripod.
EF 200mm Lens
ISO100
20 exposures @ 7/10sec stacked
20 exposures @ 7/10sec with cap on for dark calibration
Exposures stacked, calibrated and processed with ImagesPlus software.
Inset was clipped out of "The Sky" software.

Regards,
Wab

[CptTrips]

that is so awsome, i didn't know that was europa next to jupiter, isnt that one of it's moons?

I saw on the news last night about this, and i could see both the planets before it was even dark outside, went and got my telescope, just too cool, love it when things like this happen

  thank you for sharing! 

Yes.  Ganymede, Europa, Io, and Callisto are the four Galilean moons of Jupiter.  You can see 3 of them in this photo.

Regards,
Wab

[Eagler]

did you use a remote to fire the picture?
I tried a tripod with my d80 and even with it, if i took the pix manual, I was still way too shaky.

[moot]

Wabb does lots of his pics as composites, iirc.  The moon in this one sure looks like it.

[CptTrips]

did you use a remote to fire the picture?
I tried a tripod with my d80 and even with it, if i took the pix manual, I was still way too shaky.

Yes, sorry, forgot that part.

I did use a Canon TC80N3 which is a timer/remote.  But I didn't use the timer, just as a remote to prevent shake.

Wab

[CptTrips]

Wabb does lots of his pics as composites, iirc.  The moon in this one sure looks like it.

Actually this is not a composite.  (Except for the informational inset and text)

I stacked the 20 exposures to reduce noise so I could agressively stretch the brightness/contrast without amplifying the noise.  But the whole stacked result was stretched as a single image.  Just as the stretching brought out the dimmer Galilean moons, it brought out the shadowed part of the moon that was hiding down in the lower bits of the data.

Clear Skies,
Wab