Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Pleiades, Hyades, NGC1647, Ceres, Vesta and Metis

[Dennis]

Hello,
I’ve just finished off identifying and labelling some of the more interesting objects in this two panel mosaic of the recent dawn gathering of the Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Pleiades, Hyades, NGC1647 and the minor planets Ceres, Vesta and Metis. Oh, not forgetting the eye of the bull – Aldeberan!

Due to an uncooperative tree line, I was imaging from the lounge window with just the Canon 7D mounted on my Tak EM200. There are two frames, made up of 10x10sec exposures and have been processed to minimise the horizon glow and the effects of the top of the window frame nebula that gradually drifted into the camera FOV as time rolled on!:)

Details:

Monday, 16th July 2012, 5:06am to 5:18am
Canon 7D with Canon 60mm F2.8 macro lens.
Manual exposure, 10 secs, F5.6, ISO400
10 frames aligned in ImagesPlus and finished in CS5

Cheers
Dennis

[[1ponders]]

What a shot Dennis. Like your timing. :thumbsup:

[RichardJ]

Hi Dennis,

Well done!! Great pictures :thumbsup:. Should be on APOD.
I'm going back to my images to see if I can pick out the other objects as well.

regards,

RichardJ

[h0ughy]

you are a legend Dennis

[Quark]

Love your work Dennis, top stuff.
Would love to see a pic of you in situ imaging from the lounge room.

Regards
Trevor

[Dennis]

Hi Trevor
Your wish is my command – here we go! Great care was taken to avoid smacking the TV screen with the counterweight shaft. For a brief, few, too-short and wonderful moments, I experienced the absolute bliss of observatory style comfort…..:lol:

Cheers

Dennis

[Deeno]

Beautiful effort!
Polar aligning would be an interesting exercise.......

[SkyViking]

Great image Dennis, and that appears to be one serious conjunction - what an impressive collection of objects in a single shot! :)

[Quark]

That is one very stylish setup Dennis, being able to make a great image of scientific interest from the lounge room is the sort of thing legends are made of, top stuff indeed.

Regards
Trevor

[Dennis]

Hah, thanks Deeno, after my wife said “NO” to me knocking a hole in the wall to fit an SCP viewing porthole, I resorted to my daytime set up tool kit.;)

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=14036

Cheers

Dennis

[StephenM]

Nicely captured Dennis!

Cheers,
Stephen

[HCR32]

Lovely shot!!!!

[Derek Klepp]

Nice pics .Now thats the way to image

[multiweb]

Nice view Dennis. Well done. :thumbsup: