Venus and Jupiter

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #1 25-08-2005, 07:04 PM

Thought I'd get in early for next week's close approach of Venus and Jupiter. Spica at the top left, then Jupiter and Venus with a dish thrown in for good measure.

Mick (Michael) · #2 25-08-2005, 07:25 PM

Nice work CC.

davidpretorius · #3 25-08-2005, 07:29 PM

nice dish!!!! and the planets look great too!

asimov (John) · #4 25-08-2005, 09:51 PM

Nice 1 Kev!

iceman (Mike) · #5 26-08-2005, 06:18 AM

Great shot, I think it would also look nice with a long exposure (without the flash) to show the silouette of the dish with the stars/planets in the background.

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #6 26-08-2005, 12:12 PM

Kind of tried that Mike, but I'm somewhat limited to what I can do with a 4 second max exposure from the little Nikon Coolpix 2100.

The dish was actually lit by an LED torch waved over it as I can't set the flash to go off in night landscape mode. This little camera is a bit limited.

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #7 26-08-2005, 07:28 PM

Just mucking about, this time with a Mintron video camera, 28mm lens - 128 frames with frame integration set to 64x.

iceman (Mike) · #8 27-08-2005, 11:55 AM

Nice Kevin, a longer exposure would've been great for the 2nd one.

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #9 27-08-2005, 01:15 PM

Maybe when you buy me a nice DSLR Mike.

But even then would be limited to about 15 seconds exposure due to star trailing.

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #10 29-08-2005, 10:12 PM

The cloud cut me a bit short this evening but I got something.

Tricolour image with the Mintron video camera and 50mm lens at f2.8. Not sure why this one has diffraction spikes an the other one doesn't.

iceman (Mike) · #11 30-08-2005, 06:21 AM

Nice one Kev, looking forward to seeing your shots in the next few days as they get closer!

I like the spikes on this one.

tony66 · #12 30-08-2005, 06:36 PM

2 15 second exp. on the new triopod, with canon powershot a85.

Mick (Michael) · #13 30-08-2005, 06:56 PM

Nice work Kevin and Tony. The cloud are spoiling the show at the moment, I got this a few days ago.

h0ughy (David) · #14 30-08-2005, 09:41 PM

partially cloudy with high cloud at the moment. I took these images tonight (30/8/2005)

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #15 31-08-2005, 08:18 PM

You been spraying those leafless trees with roundup Mick?

Anyway the effect works well.

I was lucky to get anything tonight. Just a few minutes gap in the lower cloud layer let me get in a shot or two. Still some high cloud though which makes the focus look a bit soft. That and the 25 year old focal lens.

Both are just greyscale, no time for colour. The wide shot is with a 50mm lens at f2.8 and the closer up of Jupiter is with the 25 year old focal lens set at f5.6. Both taken with the Mintron video camera.