Moon Jupiter and Venus

traveller (Bo) · #1 30-06-2015, 05:43 PM

About 12 photos of the conjunction of Moon, Jupiter and Venus taken on 21 June. XE-1 body with Nikon 85mm f1.8 lens (stepped down to f4). Exposures varied between 1/4 sec and 1/2 sec, all at ISO 400.
A quick stack and some very minor tweaking in PS.
Can see the crescent phase of Venus at 200% and well as two moons of Jupiter at 300%.
Comments welcome.

h0ughy (David) · #2 30-06-2015, 08:22 PM

nice work there. i didn't get a shot of the conjunction but it was beautiful to watch the dance over those few days

Robert9 (Robert) · #3 01-07-2015, 02:03 PM

It was good "dance" to see. Well caught Bo.

With Venus you could shorten the exposure considerably and make the phase shadow more apparent. The bright disk has no detail to offer; a white blob is a white blob. Where as with Jupiter, you might be able to pick up the bands at a shorter exposure.
Robert

traveller (Bo) · #4 01-07-2015, 09:28 PM

Thanks Robert and David,
I would love to have another go at this, but the only things dancing in the sky at the moment in Melbourne are clouds

Bo

Robert9 (Robert) · #5 02-07-2015, 02:03 PM

......and now, the wind and rain!

Robert