The moon and Jupiter are in close proximity tonight: Comments and critiques welcome.

srsincary Loc: Cary, NC

Comments and critiques welcome.

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venkatesh_eng

srsincary wrote:

Comments and critiques welcome.

Nice very clear and lot of clarity in your picture. I noticed the same yesterday of the moon and Jupiter from my driveway. And couldn't help taking this attached picture using my iPhone 14 Promax.

therwol Loc: USA

srsincary wrote:

Comments and critiques welcome.

Funny how we noticed the same thing. Mine overexposes the moon but shows Jupiter a bit better. Or is it Venus? I'm not an expert on this.

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alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

srsincary wrote:

Comments and critiques welcome.

And you even caught some of the equatorial banding on Jupiter. Good job.

WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

srsincary wrote:

Comments and critiques welcome.

Very nice Moon image Ronnie.
Is this a single exposure, HDR, stacked layers?

srsincary Loc: Cary, NC

venkatesh_eng wrote:

Nice very clear and lot of clarity in your picture. I noticed the same yesterday of the moon and Jupiter from my driveway. And couldn't help taking this attached picture using my iPhone 14 Promax.

Thanks, Venkatesh. I think the iPhone alliows manual exposure in Pro mode. If interested, you can reduce the exposure so that the moon is less bright.

srsincary Loc: Cary, NC

therwol wrote:

Funny how we noticed the same thing. Mine overexposes the moon but shows Jupiter a bit better. Or is it Venus? I'm not an expert on this.

It is Jupiter. The only way to get a bright object like the moon and a dim object like Jupiter exposed properly in the same shot is to take separate pictures and combine them in Photoshop. Mine is a single photo initially (under)exposed to bring out lunar surface details. But later, I masked out the moon in PSE and increased the exposure and removed shadows from the rest of the picture.

ValetaSue Loc: Panama City, Florida

awesome

srsincary Loc: Cary, NC

alberio wrote:

And you even caught some of the equatorial banding on Jupiter. Good job.

Thanks, alberio, for the feedback.

srsincary Loc: Cary, NC

WDCash wrote:

Very nice Moon image Ronnie.
Is this a single exposure, HDR, stacked layers?

Thanks for the feedback.

Mine is a single photo initially (under)exposed to bring out lunar surface details. But later, I masked out the moon in PSE and increased the exposure and removed shadows from the rest of the picture.

therwol Loc: USA

srsincary wrote:

It is Jupiter. The only way to get a bright object like the moon and a dim object like Jupiter exposed properly in the same shot is to take separate pictures and combine them in Photoshop. Mine is a single photo initially (under)exposed to bring out lunar surface details. But later, I masked out the moon in PSE and increased the exposure and removed shadows from the rest of the picture.

You did an excellent job.

srsincary Loc: Cary, NC

ValetaSue wrote:

awesome

Thank you, Valetasue, for viewing and commenting.

srsincary Loc: Cary, NC

therwol wrote:

You did an excellent job.

Thanks!

therwol Loc: USA

srsincary wrote:

Thanks!

I just discovered something interesting. On two of my pictures that are grossly overexposed, I can see two of Jupiter's moons. It's consistent. I captioned this for myself and changed the color balance slightly.

srsincary Loc: Cary, NC

therwol wrote:

I just discovered something interesting. On two of my pictures that are grossly overexposed, I can see two of Jupiter's moons. It's consistent. I captioned this for myself and changed the color balance slightly.

Yes, I have shot Jupiter separately and seen the moons. However, I do not know how to get surface details of Jupiter with a regular camera and telephoto lens.