Moon + Saturn - wide conjunction 11th Dec 2006

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all

On the 11th December 2006, I was at Terrigal beach hunting the Mars/Mercury/Jupiter conjunction, but couldn't find them due to poor transparency and not knowing exactly where to look.

But I did find a conjunction of sorts - the Moon and Saturn were fairly high in the north, and within the same field of my DSLR @ 300mm.

Here's a shot of their wide conjunction - a composite of 2 exposures. The moon at 1/60s f/13 ISO100, and Saturn at 1.0s f/13 ISO100, using my 350D + 75-300mm stock lens @ 300mm.

The 2 exposures were combined in photoshop, and some levels+sharpening were applied to the moon.

At full-res, Saturn was an over-exposed oval shape.. needed more focal length to be able to resolve it into rings + disc

Thanks for looking.

[stephenmcnelley]

Havent seen much at all of that 'alleged' conjunction- almost no-one saw it!!
Thanks for the evidence..lol

[h0ughy (David)]

top stuff mike, the moon looks great in that image too

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Great composition Mike, Ilike the contrast.

Cheers Petra