Venus and Crescent Moon close together tonight (Sunday 27 November 2011)

[iceman]

Venus and the Crescent Moon will make a nice pairing in the West tonight after sunset.

Make sure you head on out to take a look!

I look forward to seeing some pics!

[steve000]

Thanks for pointing this out, I had the curtain down and hadn't noticed.

[traveller]

Here is my attempt on a point and shoot mounted on a tripod.
I was going to do it on my Nikon, but it died this morning :sadeyes::sadeyes::sadeyes:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=83536
Cheers,
Bo

[h0ughy]

well i had a hack at it tonight - my wedding anniversary ;):D and managed to get a happy snappy - canon40D slightly modified and a 135mm lens on a tripod. its a pity that it was shot from the burbs - going to a lake or somewhere flat with it being guided or at least tracking longer exposures may have brought out the lagoon neb near venus

edit added second image where i have tried to balance the red a bit better

[bartman]

Happy anniversary David!!!!
( BTW is that a cropped zoomed in pic?)
Cheers
Bartman
Ps did try at the Moon and Venus, but too many clouds and could not get focus when there was a break....

[h0ughy]

thanks - no not cropped - -thats the field of view with the 135mm L lens

[iceman]

Nice one guys!

[hotspur]

nice capture Bo,I did look at it ,but just tired from all this very hot weather,was happy to watch and not set up gear for images

[OneOfOne]

We noticed it last night on the way home from dinner and thought it looked so cute!

[Rob_K]

Nice shots guys! Looked brilliant from my place, the pair shining brightly through haze in the west.

Cheers -

[iceman]

Beautiful images Rob!

[h0ughy]

nice shots Rob - did you manage to get any longer exposures capturing the lagoon neb stars?

[Rob_K]

Thanks guys. No Houghy, there was too much haze and the sky was too light - my horizons aren't great and I couldn't follow the pair down low as it darkened. Cleared later but a miss is as good as a mile! :lol:

Cheers -

[naskies]

Much the same here... by the time I had the EQ6 set up properly and the skies were dark enough, I ran out of horizon :( It would have been a cracker shot to have Venus, Mercury, Moon, Lagoon and Trifid all in the one frame/exposure.

[iceman]

Beautiful!

[h0ughy]

i had a tweak on one of mine again - this time tunring it to a B&W and added some labels. Fantastic shot of yours naskies - very similar to mine - might end up labelling the bright stars yet?

[naskies]

Thanks David. I was going to use the 135L but it had pretty bad framing (I don't have a 3/8" adapter to put my bullhead on the mount), so I went with the 70-200 instead. Interesting that the diffraction pattern ended up being very similar.

Here's my labelled version of what I would have liked to have captured... with a bit of outside help, of course :lol:

[h0ughy]

Mike - did you manage to take this? (ps also edited the thread title - -its not sunday anymore ;))

[iceman]

No, didn't get any photos :(