Mercury Jupiter Moon 24 Oct 2006

[okiscopey]

Just taken out of my window at Bondi, 6:40pm.

Handheld with support, Canon 300D 55-200mm lens at 200mm, 200ISO, about 1/4s at whatever the camera decided the lens should be on 'P' (Program).

A desperate attempt to be first for once!!!


(Second image is labelled in case Mercury can't be seen in this size file.)

Phew! Did I get in b4 anyone else?!?

[Dennis]

Hi Mike

With a very poor western horizon we missed this one. Thanks for posting such a lovely image, and congratulations on being the first, and best!

Cheers

Dennis

[UniPol]

Great shot Mike, hope you don't mind me adding my shot of the Moon et al to your thread. I just got home in Winmalee and spied the threesome near the corner of the house. Raced inside to get the 350D but needed the card and lens which were somewhere around the house so I grabbed my Contax P & S and put it on the tripod. The shot was taken at 6.55 p.m. about 1 sec exposure so you just beat me to it. Great evening here, must be around 20 C but the mozzies are bad.

Cheers, Steve

[iceman]

I got the same fate as Dennis, horrible West horizon.

Look forward to seeing more shots! Great start everyone.

[Dave47tuc]

Nice shots.
Just came in after showing the family the Moon etc.:)
Here is my shot, with my fuji s5500 on auto. Took about 100 shots some ok. Here on of the better.:)
Looked great with cloud (hopefully rain) coming in.

[okiscopey]

OK Steve and Dave, I got in first but you two win! It really helps to have a bit of foreground interest that wasn't available here.

[h0ughy]

nice stuff fellas, here is my effort


edit : Pentax *istDS with sigma 50-500 lens iso 200 with 2 second exposure (darker images) and 1 second exposure for the first image

[firstlight]

Great shots guys, this one that I got with a Canon Powershot A400
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Got few more but haven't seen if I had anything better yet. Took a shot with alchemy as well but I will have to wait until I get it developed... bring on the 400D :)

[UniPol]

I dunno Mike, that's the sea in the foreground at Bondi isn't it? :D

[Mick]

Nice photos, I finished work late so I was also looking west no photos. Thanks for posting. :)

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

They are all great photos, but that first one is an absolute cracker mate – well done.

Cheers

Dennis

[jjjnettie]

Beaut shots everyone!
I missed it because of an especially prickly Cactus Hour.

[Brendan]

here is the best of my shots, taken with a fuji finpix s5600 on night setting and held by hand.

[[1ponders]]

After missing yesterday's event I decided to take the trip up to the top of the hill at Mapleton and cross the fingers. And lo and behold the cloud parted :cool:

A range of lenses and settings from 25mm ISO100 "P" settings :P to 600 mm ISO 200 and gradually upping the exposure to around 2.5 sec to finally 90mm ISO400 up to around 13 sec exposure. Even picked up Jupiters moons in the last to ;)

[spacezebra]

We we clouded in :(, so I was hoping that the luckier ones would post some shots of the event. All beatifully captured and thanks for sharing :).

Cheers Petra

[h0ughy]

nice shots there Mr Ponders!

Brendon - well your a brave man!


Thanks Dennis!

[netwolf]

Excellent shots guys, Paul in awe of your work mate great image scale.

I wonder if I can get the imagescale on my A610 if i go for a zoom lense add on.

Here are my humble entries for the day.

My last one if you zoom in for a look shows the 3 small objects near (right and up) Jupiter, are these Moons?
If so what are there names?
I see these in Paul's shots more clearly as mine was a 10s exposure and his is a 13sec.

Regards

[h0ughy]

yes there were 3 moons below Jupiter

[WadeH]

Here is my effort. Great view from the back deck of our house. Hand held Olympus 410 compact balanced on the rail.

[h0ughy]

I was about to say with that moon positional view you must be further west , then i saw you were from WA:doh:

[RB]

What a magnificent sight it was and well done to everyone who went out and observed/imaged the event, great work all.
Thanks okiscopey for starting the thread.

Here's my effort from last night.
I was very surprised to see Jupiter's moons showing up so clearly.

[iceman]

WOW! Paul's and Andrew's are magnificent! I just know that's been sent to the mags right now :)

Top stuff guys, thanks for sharing as I missed it completely.

[h0ughy]

top Shot RB, did you have that tracking ona mount or just sitting on a tripod? Unfortunatelly I lost my horizon so couldn't get it when it was at its brightest. the atmosphere was also hazy in Newcastle, we had a stiff NE seabreeze blowing, but seeing the moons of jupiter was a real buzz. Your image is magnificent!:thumbsup: Which lens and settings did you use. With the NE blowing I could only go for 1 or 2 seconds max

[RB]

Thanks guys, I was really happy with the outcome too.

This was a tripod shot, using my new rule of 2's :lol:

2 sec exp
ISO 200
200 mm @ f/2.8
Canon 20Da

[h0ughy]

yeah you bugger its the f2.8 that makes the difference there, mine was at f5.6

[ving]

great stuff guys! i should have taken a pic too damn it!!! :)

was very nice to just look at tho :)

[firstlight]

Here is probably the first image that you can definitely see Mercury. Taken at 18:27, 1/13 th sec f3.8. I got a shot about 5 minutes earlier that you can use averted imagination to see Mercury.

I have an animation taken later that night that shows how quickly the Earth turns. Jus need to make it small enough and still be able to see the planets.

Tony

[firstlight]

Forgot to add the cropped image from the previous post
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[firstlight]

Here is a crop of the image from 18:21... can anyone else see Mercury?

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[h0ughy]

no:shrug:

[firstlight]

Hmmm, not using enough imagination there :D

Here is the animation I put together. Covers ~1m 45s, cropped from larger images. Zips this size are ok on the forum here?

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[spacezebra]

All beautiful shots

Thanks for sharing

Cheers Petra

[firstlight]

Does this help?... not much I guess... need to look at it around 200%.
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[h0ughy]

OK you convinced me;)

[iceman]

Focal ratio/focal length discussion split to here:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=14430

[jase]

Magnificent photos by all. :)