Jupiter Venus conjunction
Jul 1, 2015 00:36:03 #
Here is the conjunction as imaged through an 11 inch Celestron telescope coupled with a 0.65 reducer/field flattener and a Canon 60Da camera. Exposure was 10 seconds at ISO 1000 and f/6.5
Jupiter is at top with four of it's moons. They are from left to right Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto. Venus is a thick crescent at bottom.
We had a blood red sunset and a lot of clouds. The high haze plus clouds made for a difficult imaging session and I was happy just to get this, giving what we had to shoot through!
Jupiter is at top with four of it's moons. They are from left to right Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto. Venus is a thick crescent at bottom.
We had a blood red sunset and a lot of clouds. The high haze plus clouds made for a difficult imaging session and I was happy just to get this, giving what we had to shoot through!
Jul 1, 2015 00:38:02 #
Jul 1, 2015 00:39:18 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Not too shabby. Interesting CA on crescent Venus.
Thank you Nikonian72. Yes, Venus was very bright and had that horrendous red glow around it, so did Jupiter but to a much lesser extent. The sun was blood red when it set tonight as was the moon. Some sort of dust, haze or smoke in the upper atmosphere. Haven't seen a sun that red in well over ten years from this location.
Jul 1, 2015 00:50:02 #
Jul 1, 2015 00:52:14 #
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Very nice indeed..
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Thank you, I appreciate it very much.
Jul 1, 2015 01:48:21 #
Love it!
I like the Galilean moons and the phase of Venus showing in the same frame.
Very cool.
GT
I like the Galilean moons and the phase of Venus showing in the same frame.
Very cool.
GT
Jul 2, 2015 11:11:19 #
Algol wrote:
Here is the conjunction as imaged through an 11 in... (show quote)
Very nice! This is by far the best example I have seen posted. I have had cloudy nights for the past few nights, and not able to see this conjunction myself.
Jul 2, 2015 13:46:17 #
Jul 2, 2015 15:48:56 #
I have heard that the eastern US is actually getting dust blown from the Sahara desert , this according to a local television station. This may be contributing to the colors.
Jul 2, 2015 19:08:07 #
Thank you all for the nice comments. I haven't heard about the dust but that would account for the deep red sun and moon. It also made Jupiter and Venus very red and I had a hard time getting the red out, probably should have used Visine, lol. Venus looked normal under a long exposure but had this horrendous red halo glow around it that I did remove. Jupiter was very, very red if you tried to expose just enough to get the belts and cloud features on the planet, that is why it is overexposed and looks like a blank disc.
Jul 3, 2015 00:42:05 #
dlmorris
Loc: Loma Linda, Ca
Nice shot! I'm not sure how low on the horizon they were when you shot them, but you do get that CA sometimes when the planet is low. I don't know why, though. But the pair came out very well!
Jul 3, 2015 01:25:17 #
Algol wrote:
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Very very nice Jerry :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
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