A picturesque Moon / Venus pairing – Brisbane 14th August 2012

[Dennis]

Hello,

After my recent series of wide field (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=94716)images of the current picturesque morning conjunctions, I decided to image the Moon / Venus pairing on Tuesday morning, 14th August 2012. The brightness variations were so extreme that I decided to wait until twilight and then grabbed a series of 10 photos at 1/3 stop intervals. These were then loaded into SNS-HDR Pro (http://www.sns-hdr.com/)which rather cleverly spat out this result.:)

This is the 1st time I have ever seen an application succeed with HDR attempts at the bright lunar terminator. Venus is some 49% illuminated and the phase can be seen as almost ½.

Cheers

Dennis

[Deeno]

That is nice!
Very clever

[StephenM]

Very clever indeed Dennis! That's a great result.

It was a nice looking conjunction wasn't it.

Cheers,
Stephen

[iceman]

Lovely image Dennis!

[RB]

Once again you produce an amazing image using skill and clever techniques my friend.
Wonderful idea.

Well done, and it's so sharp !

:thumbsup:

[Derek Klepp]

Interesting result.A great morning

[Dennis]

Thanks Derek, it was a stunning visual spectacle.

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Thanks Andrew – it is always good to hear from you; makes the place feel like home!:)

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Here is a composite with an inset at top right showing the full res size of Venus. Image taken through Vixen 102mm F9 refractor with Vixen 0.67 Reducer/Flattener, giving an effective focal length of 615mm at approx. F6. Camera was the Canon 7D.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

Lovely pair of crescents!

[Dennis]

Thanks Mike!

Cheers

Dennis