Moon, Pleiades. Mars and Venus, 18July09

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Hi all,

Here are some shots taken early this morning. The first 2 show the Moon, Mars and Venus with the Pleiades and Hyades clusters. The view will be ever better tomorrow, with Mars-Aldebaran-Moon-Venus forming a square.

The last image is a close up of the crescent Moon and Pleiades taken using my 70-300mm telephoto lens. It's a combination of 2 different exposures merged in PS7, to bring out more star in the Pleiades. I've been wanting to try this for a while, and I'm fairly happy with the result given that I used a tripod-mounted dSLR.

It was only about 4.5 degrees this morning, but I'm glad I got out there!
Thanks for looking.

Cheers,
Stephen

[matt]

I had a bit of an eyeball view of this myself earlier this morning...on my way to work

Nicely captured, Stephen

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Thanks Matt.

I got up early again on Sunday but was clouded out .

Cheers,
Stephen

[erick (Eric)]

Lovely Stephen.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

And there's BeetleJuice over on the right hand side too, making an arc of reds!
Love the last image best though.
Thanks Stephen!

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Nice one Stephen

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Thanks for the comments Eric, Jeanette and Adam. It's taken me a while to get back to this thread, with all the excitement about Bird's Jupiter impact.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Jared87]

Very nice Stephen! Thank you for comments.




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