Six Degrees of Separation

[luigi]

Hi All,

I've been busy lately and couldn't dedicate time to IIS, I'm sorry about that I'll start to catch up now I hope!

I took this images last night as the Moon and Jupiter were at six degrees of separation and I couldn't resist the title.

I wanted to see what could be done with a DSLR without a telescope and I was very surprised by the level of detail I could get from Jupiter!

I'm including the Moon pic, Jupiter and a composite.

Link to a bigger resolution picture here:
http://www.luisargerich.com/night/h28997d19#h28997d19

Details:
Canon 550D, Canon 400mm F5.6L, Kenko TC 1.4x
Tripod, MLU and cable release
1/160, F11, ISO800
Manual Focused using Live-View
From Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Thanks for your feedback!
Luis

[Octane]

Luis,

Excellent shot, my friend!

H

[Clayton]

Very nice.

[iceman]

That's fantastic! Not often you get such a detailed view of both bodies in the same field of view!

Lovely work.

[jjjnettie]

That's just awesome!
The clouds parted last night for a few minutes and THAT is what I saw. I wished I could have taken a photo of it.
So Thank You for posting.

[h0ughy]

great shot - nice details and framing

[suma126]

the first one works for me :thumbsup:

[SkyViking]

Great shots. I suppose the Moon and Jupiter is not to scale in the composite image? Jupiter looks about 3x larger than it should be compared to the Moon.

[luigi]

Ty a lot H!



Thanks Clayton!



Ty Ice!



Ty! yes I tried to show what I saw, I was lucky to have clear skies here.



Ty H0ughy!



Ty Suma!



You are right Sir! Hopefully it is close enough to what I could see and Remember. The moon is hard, it plays a lot of tricks in our brains and I don't know why.

[Matt Wastell]

Great images - I did this a few years back and the scale of Jupiter was about the diameter of the crater Plato!