Moon Jupiter Mercury Conjunction

[sheeny]

First shot is the Moon and Jupiter tonight.

The second has Mercury on the LHS as well.

Oly E510, 70-300 lens, f/4.6, 1/2 sec, tripod and cable release.

Al.

[Dennis]

Lovely shots Al - thanks for posting the results, as we lucked out in Brisbane due clouds and a band of storms blasting through.

Cheers

Dennis

[Kevnool]

Thanks top shot its a pearler of a night here and i,m not out there.......cheers Kev.

[matt]

Good stuff, Al:thumbsup:

I would have liked to have had a crack at this tonight myself, but Dennis has already summed up our fortunes in Brisbane.

I also had hopes of using my new Venus UV filter tonight. No such luck.

Thanks for posting your images.

[sheeny]

Thanks guys!

I nearly missed it... I've been flat out trying to solve some power problems with my mount and wasn;t thinking about it at all, but I spied on one of my trips in and out of the observatory so decided to take some time out and catch it.;)

I haven't solved the problem with my mount yet..:sadeyes:

Al.

[Deeno]

Lovely shot Al.
Missed out here due to cloud (surprise,surprise)

[venus]

I would have loved to have that view, thanks.

We waited and waited but there were clouds...

[bones]

Nice shots Al. Well worth the effort.

[Matty P]

Great shot Al. Thanks for sharing. :)

:thumbsup:

[Screwdriverone]

Hi Al,

Nice Satellite dish image you have there, looks like Jupiter is the focus of the Moon's parabolic dish.

Great shots, pity we have had clouded out skies tonight, would have liked to have seen the conjunction personally.

Cheers

Chris

[h0ughy]

nice shot Al - all we had here in newcastle was cloudy weather - no sky to view!

[Octane]

Al,

Both of those shots are stunningly gorgeous.

Well done!

Regards,
Humayun

[ian musgrave]

Fantastic shots Al. I was able to see the disappearance (or would have if my youngest son had not distracted me by trying to climb the telescope), and the reappearance. However, all my photography was rubbish. You can read the saga and see the (somewhat blurry) images here http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2008/12/semi-liveblogging-occultation.html.

[Liz]

great shots, Al :thumbsup:

[sheeny]

Thanks everyone.:)


Thanks very much, H! That means a lot from from someone who does such gorgeous work as yourself.



At least you got to see it:thumbsup:. It would've been behind the ridge for me before disappearance.

Al.

[RB]

Very nice shots Al !

:)

[Garyh]

Yes, very nice Al! :thumbsup: nice composition.
Looked real bad here to see it but right on sunset the last of the storm cells move off and had some nice clear breaks before low cloud rolled in! So luckily got a few piccs in:)
cheers

[stevejack]

Good to hear some of you were able to see/photograph it.

I took a friend out observing/camping that night and we managed to see it - although it was by mistake as I didn't know it was happening :rolleyes:. Unfortunately there was a mini dust storm blowing but the view of both in my 40mm eyepiece was still very nice. The crescent moon was an orange/red colour and you could still make out Jupiter's bands through the distortion. She was pretty impressed with the view (never having even seen Jupiter itself before) but unfortunately the seeing during the rest of the night was very average.

We did manage to catch an Iridium Flare which was quite impressive as well, not to mention more than a dozen shooting stars before midnight. All in all we were pretty lucky :thumbsup:

[Dylan]

Inspite of dust storm you have taken a nice photo that is equally good!

[Inmykombi]

Lovely photos,
lots of interesting detail in the subjetcs and also the trees and surrounding sky and clouds.

Well done.

[sheeny]

Thanks for the comments, guys!

Al.

[Dylan]

Some one catches what we miss at the crucial times

[prokyon]

Hi Al,

very lovely pics, this constellation was very nice!

I observed it too:

Venus, Moon and Jupiter:
http://www.prokyon.startime.at/Bilder/VenusMondJupiter29Dez08.jpg

Mood, Jupiter and Mercury:
http://www.prokyon.startime.at/Bilder/MondJupiterMerkur29Dez08.jpg

Moon and Jupiter:
http://www.prokyon.startime.at/Bilder/MondJupiter29Dez08.jpg

cheers

werner

[sheeny]

Lovely photos, Werner. Love the colours!

Al.

[h0ughy]

fully agree, brilliant sunset shots