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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: CptTrips on December 01, 2008, 10:30:57 PM
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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. :huh)
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
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Very nice man.
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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
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My moon is nicer!
(http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/qq77/AAdeath/moonbutt-1.gif)
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"ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE"
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Great pics Wab :salute
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what camera / settings did you use?
tripod? timer / remote?
great shot!
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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
:aok thank you for sharing! :rock
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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).
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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
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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
:aok thank you for sharing! :rock
Yes. Ganymede, Europa, Io, and Callisto are the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. You can see 3 of them in this photo.
Regards,
Wab
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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.
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Wabb does lots of his pics as composites, iirc. The moon in this one sure looks like it.
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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
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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
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That's what I meant, stacked, sorry.
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That's a great shot.
I find the dark side of the moon especially interesting. I can only assume that it's being lit from the sunlight reflecting off the surface of the earth. Have you ever taken and stacked pictures of a new moon? I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a "full" dark moon before.
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Wabbit
How ironic that you posted this - thank you by the way. The wife and I were commenting on the beautiful evening stars the other night and I got a =WTH- do you know ?--- look from the wife when I said they were planets I believe, That I believe one is Venus but I do not know what the other one is.....The 6 year old daughter was quite impressed, but the wife had significantly planted a seed of doubt
You got a squeal and a Way Cool statement .. and thanks by the way for the look of admiration from a six year old kid that I am not as goofy as her mother says I am ....
:)
:aok
NwBie
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That's a great shot.
I find the dark side of the moon especially interesting. I can only assume that it's being lit from the sunlight reflecting off the surface of the earth. Have you ever taken and stacked pictures of a new moon? I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a "full" dark moon before.
ChickenHawk,
I've had that same idea myself.
However, I think the problem is that a new Moon is dark because the Sun is lighting up its back side, not any of the side facing us. It can only do that when the Moon is roughly between us and the Sun (not exactly between us as that would be an eclipse :)). So, when the Moon is new, it is likely right near the Sun in the sky and totally lost in the Sun's glare.
Regards,
Wab
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Thanks for the great pics, Wab..I just showed these pics to my family, seeing the moons is pretty amazing, I have a telescope & never thought to even look. I brought it up tonight because we can still see the planets, walking home from dinner. The same night you took those pictures, I commented on how nice is it was to see the moon with 2 planets, I found later about how rare it is to see Jupiter & Venus with the moon. (Again, walking home from ... well the liquor store that time :).
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ChickenHawk,
I've had that same idea myself.
However, I think the problem is that a new Moon is dark because the Sun is lighting up its back side, not any of the side facing us. It can only do that when the Moon is roughly between us and the Sun (not exactly between us as that would be an eclipse :)). So, when the Moon is new, it is likely right near the Sun in the sky and totally lost in the Sun's glare.
Regards,
Wab
There is no dark side of the moon, it's all dark.
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/pinkfloyd-album-dark_side_of_the_mo.jpg)
Sorry, Wab, couldn't resist. :D
Once again, fantastic job. I always look forward to your shots. :rock
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I find the dark side of the moon especially interesting. I can only assume that it's being lit from the sunlight reflecting off the surface of the earth.
Sorry, I forgot to answer your question. Yes, I believe the term is "Earthshine".
Clear Skies,
Wab
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Wabbit
How ironic that you posted this - thank you by the way. The wife and I were commenting on the beautiful evening stars the other night and I got a =WTH- do you know ?--- look from the wife when I said they were planets I believe, That I believe one is Venus but I do not know what the other one is.....The 6 year old daughter was quite impressed, but the wife had significantly planted a seed of doubt
You got a squeal and a Way Cool statement .. and thanks by the way for the look of admiration from a six year old kid that I am not as goofy as her mother says I am ....
:)
:aok
NwBie
Glad to have been of assistance. :salute
Wab
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Mark you calendars. From one of my Astronomy club friends. ....
List of all approaches of any two planets within five degrees of each other
in the 21st Century.
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NEAR FAR ELON- GEOCENTRIC SEMIDIAM. SEMIDIAM.
TDT PLANET PLANET GATION SEPARATION OF NEAR OF FAR
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2008 Feb 1 12:14 Venus - Jupiter 32 W 0°35'19"88 N 6.70" 16.30"
2008 Dec 1 8:45 Venus - Jupiter 43 E 2°00'47"27 S 8.91" 16.98"
2010 Feb 17 2:16 Venus - Jupiter 9 E 0°32'05"78 S 5.31" 16.52"
2011 May 11 14:49 Venus - Jupiter 26 W 0°34'04"67 S 6.03" 16.88"
2012 Mar 13 22:27 Venus - Jupiter 46 E 2°59'54"31 NW 11.05" 17.51"
2012 Jul 1 7:58 Venus - Jupiter 32 W 4°48'07"40 SE 23.89" 16.99"
2013 May 28 18:38 Venus - Jupiter 16 E 0°59'55"31 N 5.47" 16.21"
2014 Aug 18 5:12 Venus - Jupiter 18 W 0°11'53"43 N 5.57" 15.83"
2015 Jul 1 3:50 Venus - Jupiter 42 E 0°20'03"07 SW 17.41" 16.22"
2015 Oct 25 23:39 Venus - Jupiter 46 W 1°01'29"95 S 12.98" 16.33"
2016 Aug 27 22:32 Venus - Jupiter 22 E 0°03'59"99 NE 5.80" 15.47"
2017 Nov 13 8:25 Venus - Jupiter 14 W 0°15'43"43 N 5.46" 15.41"
2019 Jan 22 15:16 Venus - Jupiter 46 W 2°24'23"48 N 11.22" 16.49"
2019 Nov 24 12:31 Venus - Jupiter 26 E 1°24'18"05 S 6.11" 16.14"
Regards,
Wab