Sunrise at Terrigal last week

iceman (Mike) · #1 24-04-2006, 01:42 PM

Took these shots last Tuesday morning, while watching the Venus/Uranus conjunction at Terrigal.

They didn't turn out as nice as I would've hoped.. the shots when it was still dark required a high ISO (800) and a long exposure to bring up any foreground (as well as processing levels in photoshop).

The shots just before sunrise were too overexposed just at the horizon, because I didn't use my ND grad filter to block out the light coming in the top half of the lens.

Ah well, learning experience.

In the first 4 shots, Mercury also makes an appearance as the brightest "star" close to the horizon (slightly to the right of Venus).

Comments welcome.

h0ughy (David) · #2 24-04-2006, 01:46 PM

I like sunrise 3. Can you send me the full res file of that, I'd like to try and pick uranus out in the image

Edit: mmmmm need to be more choosey next time with my words, um I am at home mike!

ving (David) · #3 24-04-2006, 01:50 PM

still interesting mike.... so which point of light is uranus?

h0ughy (David) · #4 24-04-2006, 01:54 PM

Without taking over his thread, I feel as though it is just above Venus David

ving (David) · #5 24-04-2006, 02:01 PM

oh, its brighter than i expected then.
on ya mike

iceman (Mike) · #6 24-04-2006, 02:04 PM

Here's image #3 again, with a full crop portion showing the position of Uranus. They would've been close enough to be in the same FOV in the eyepiece! How cool would that have been!

iceman (Mike) · #7 24-04-2006, 02:05 PM

It's just below and to the right. The next day it was above.

Quite faint in this shot, a 20s exposure in the rising dawn.

h0ughy (David) · #8 24-04-2006, 02:10 PM

thanks Mike, I remember seeing it above, and assumed that this was the case in this image

. BTW great sunrise too

. So does the sun shine from....?

Volans · #9 24-04-2006, 04:52 PM

G'day Mike,

Those shots are wonderful! They are the type of astrophotos I really like...a bit of astronomy and a bit of landscape. Images 3 and 4, 4 in particular, are great and you could easily imagine yourself to be looking at the sky from another planet.

Peter.

acropolite (Phil) · #10 24-04-2006, 06:10 PM

I agree with Peter, I like the shots just as they are, IMO they convey the feel of dawn and are beautiful to look at. May be worth trying fill flash if you want to get some foreground effects next time.