The Moon and Jupiter

[Quopaz]

Jupiter was very close to the moon this morning. On high power I couldn't get them in the same shot, but I was able to on 48x and 96x. Took heaps of pics and still have to go through them all. Even took some landscape type ones.

[foc]

That is really good and quite a collectors image. You seem to be an early riser!

[Sunfish]

That’s good. Hard to get those together and with a good exposure.

[Quopaz]

Thanks, I'm a dairy farmer and have to get up early anyway- but this morning I got up at 3 to get some observing in before milking. Was up before the moon came up and taking pics right through until it got too much daylight. Not sure how often these 2 come together but had to try and get them both in the same pic. A couple others:

[Derek Klepp]

Good ones Nick keep at it .Both the photography and the Dairy Farming.
Cheers Derek

[AndyG]

I remember seeing this early this morning too, when woken up by our cat. I thought, if Jupiter was a few more degrees over, and it'd look a bit like the Turkish Flag...

[Quopaz]

One thing I noticed looking back through all the pics, was that it started a bit to one side. Then it moved across and reached maximum closeness, before moving further away again. I didn't know at the time when it would be at it's closest point.

[Quopaz]

Tried to get the moon and saturn this morning, but they were too far apart for the telescope. I could just see them both through the finderscope, so I snapped a few pics through the finderscope before clouds came in and blocked out everything. Not very spectacular, really need them to be closer together. But it was worth a try. Should have probably slept in.

[Saturnine]

Was out observing and imaging this conjunction on Wed. morning , very pretty with Mars and Saturn nearby and the Sagittarius region as a back drop. Closest approach that I estimated was about 0.25 deg ( 15' ) which is about what the images show.
Missed the Moon / Saturn conjunction due to the ever present cloud cover.

[Quopaz]

Yeah they got pretty close. Wednesday was all clouds here. Been doing some research, there's some good conjunctions coming up in March.

[Sunfish]

Like the wide field with the tree. Very good.