Moon and Pleiades tonight close pairing

iceman (Mike) · #1 30-09-2007, 11:23 AM

The Moon will be close to the Pleiades tonight.. Could make a nice visual pairing.

§AB · #2 30-09-2007, 12:05 PM

unfortunately, the climate here is cr*p thus I will miss out.

vindictive666 (John) · #3 30-09-2007, 01:08 PM

i see them every morning

mib · #4 01-10-2007, 10:14 AM

They were very close. The seeing was poor due to a lot of moisture in the air. I could not actually see the Pleiades in my binoculars if I didn't make sure the moon was completely out of the field of due to the flare from the moon.

Chrissyo (Chris) · #5 01-10-2007, 10:44 PM

I saw it out my window early this morning and thought I might have a go with the new 400d for some laughs. So below is a hand held exposure of several seconds (and a poorly scaled and combined image of the moon). I don't think it will win any awards though.

h0ughy (David) · #6 02-10-2007, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Chrissyo

I saw it out my window early this morning and thought I might have a go with the new 400d for some laughs. So below is a hand held exposure of several seconds (and a poorly scaled and combined image of the moon). I don't think it will win any awards though.

Yep I have tried to do this ages ago - certain failure with the moon being that bright. Nice diagram though