Jupiter conjunction.

[[1ponders]]

I couldn't wait. Very exciting. Here's the first of some shots I've taken tonight.

[Starkler]

wahhh i wanted to be first !

Kodak cheapie held to the eyepiece of my 10.5mm XL in the 80ED :)

Yay im an astrophotogrpher now :D

[Starkler]

another

[RAJAH235]

Really great pics. Paul & Geoff, lucky b's. I got to within 3 A/M and then a very large black cloud came thru. Just checked at 12.10 and it's cleared again!.DAMN. Would have been a nice quick partial as well.

[cometcatcher]

Wow you guys had it closer than me. Here's mine through my video camera + 6 inch f5 Newtonian.

[[1ponders]]

Man o man Geoff, you'd better get a band aid. That's a nasty graze there. Too cool:cool2:

Well I'll just have to overwhelm you with quantity then. First shot, (top one) prime focus with a 2X barlow, about f/20.

This one prime focus again, with a barlow but attached to a meade variable tele-extender. I'll work out the f ration and focal lenght tomorrow/nearly today and post them later

[[1ponders]]

this one is taken at prime focus using positive eyepiece projection and a meade tele extender same story about the f ration etc, tonight

[[1ponders]]

And I'll put this one in simply because I got the moons. Yes I know its slightly :P:D overexposed

ps these were shot through my Celestron 102, the one with a cheese grater for a focuser.

[Mick]

Lovely photos everyone.

[Starkler]

Actually Paul from where I live about 2/3 of Jupiter got occulted and it only occured to me to try the cam after it was mostly over.

[[1ponders]]

:doh:

[iceman]

Most excellent shots! :thumsbup:

Geoff, never thought I'd see the day, you an astrophotographer :D

[Robby]

Cool pics chaps!
We had think cloud here.... Arrggghh.. :(

[gbeal]

WOW from me as well, you lucky fellas. Cloud, some rain (we needed it), and lottsa sleep. Good work guys.

[rmcpb]

Thanx for the photos, absolutely total cloud cover here all weekend so its great to at least be able to see something of the event.

Cheers

[ving]

well done peeps! wish there was less cloudage at my place :(

[rumples riot]

Heres one of mine that I posted in the moon an occultation thread. Taken through the Toucam 30 frames

[ving]

so you posted it twice huh?! :P
you must be a proud parent!

great shot btw! :)

[cometcatcher]

Now for something a bit different.

Motion blur! As jupiter zooms past the moon. Oh wait, that's not right. :P

[cometcatcher]

It's actually the moon zooming past jupiter. Depends on your perspective I suppose, and which object to track on.

[ving]

never seen the moon move so fast!! :eyepop:
:P

[Vermin]

Nice one Kevin.

[DougAdams]

Here is a photo of us *watching* the conjunction .... :whistle:

(The others didn't turn out too well...)

Amazing to view though!

[[1ponders]]

:lol2: very clever Kevin :lol: I really like the second one. Looks cool

[Starkler]

Okie my earlier ones were hurriedly resized full size shots to fit the page. Here is a trimmed full sizer .

[Astroman]

I have to post some images but I will give you the URL to them instead.

http://www.theastroweb.com/astronomy/planets/occultation.html

[RAJAH235]

A very nice series of pics Andrew. Did you notice the actual time spent behind the moon? :2thumbs:

[Astroman]

I didn't even think of doing this, I was too eager to get the pics off the camera onto the computer when the planets disc disappeared. I can tell you that between Jupiter003.jpg and egress001.jpg (last pic of the ingress and the first pic of the egress) lasted 17 minutes and 21 seconds. Not alot of time behind the moon but long enough to clear my memory card to get more images.

[iceman]

Excellent shots Andrew! Darn you guys i'm so jealous!