Moon-Jupiter Conjunction

[Emanuele]

Guys and girls....

I have done a very rough job of framing the picture but I just could NOT wait! I am very excited about this one!!!

The image is to scale! No post processing done, rather than stitching together two images! North is 55deg CCW as is the correct orientation of the image!
Taken with my Pentax 75SDHF, Canon 40D!

The original image is over 4000 wide and it VERY sharp! The full crop shows Jupiter's disk and the four satellites!
Cropped version (only 2000 pixel wide) can be found at:
http://www.backyardskies.com/BackyardSkies/MoonJupiter.html

[iceman]

Hey Emanuele, that's a beautiful image. The moon is incredibly sharp and to capture Jove and his 4 satellites is a great feat.

Nicely done!

[Emanuele]

Thank you Mike!!!
Really appreciate your comment!
I'm very proud of this image I have to say! Certainly my best!

:)

[AdrianF]

Fantastic image Emanuele.

Adrian

[Emanuele]

Thank you Adrian!

[h0ughy]

congratulations on a great shot

[matt]

That's a beauty, for sure.

Very well done, Emanuele:thumbsup:

[Emanuele]

Thank you so much guys! :)

[Liz]

Hey, that is great Emanuele ... I was admiring the photo with Moon and Jupiter, then saw the Jovian Moons :eyepop::eyepop: well done :thumbsup:

[RB]

An excellent capture indeed, Emanuele !

:thumbsup:

[StephenM]

Spectacular image Emanuele!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Emanuele]

Thank you! :D You guys are great! :thumbsup:

[dannat]

great shot, - very crisp.. the pentax looks like it has great optics. what is the fov with the camera on, looks about 3-4deg. clouded out here unfortunately

[Emanuele]

HI Daniel!

Let me check that: I am on a Mac and I miss CCD Calculator!
As I said in the original post, it is a composite of two images: I was only getting half moon with jupiter in the field so I had to stitch the images on the moon and voila! :)

[Emanuele]

HI all!

Just posting a quick update!

I was working on the Raws again since, as I said in my original post up there, I have put the panorama together in just a few minutes!

I now have some VERY slight banding ( is it my eyes or there is really??) on Jupiter!! And of course some color as well! I've played around with curves on it to try an bring out some color.
The panorama is 5000 pixels wide at this point.

Here's a FULL crop of Jupiter an Europa, Io, Ganymede and Callisto!

[dannat]

I can make out the start of banding to top & left but it seems to disappear as i scan to th bottom of the planet

PS macs are great

[jungle11]

Gday emanuel. Forgive me man, im really new to all this - but did you catch that image with ONLY a camera!! If that's the case you have blown me away - i'd never have thought that sort of detail was possible. Well done, im bud!

[Jen]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: nice pic :thumbsup:

[Emanuele]

HI Greg! Thank you! :)
Yes, I have captured that through my Canon 40D using my Pentax 75SDHF as lens !

HI Jen: thank you!