Venus, Moon, Mars and Spica over Lake Wivenhoe

StephenM (Stephen) · #1 12-09-2010, 09:48 PM

Hi all,

I've been away camping at Wivenhoe Dam (west of Brisbane) this weekend, and had beautiful clear skies on Saturday evening for this conjunction. Here are a few of the photos I captured. In the first few only the Moon and Venus were visible, and the last one was just as the Moon was about to set. The view over the lake was fabulous! - hopefully these images convey that. I also got some shots of the sun setting, which I'll try and process tomorrow.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #2 13-09-2010, 11:03 AM

Nice shot, I managed to catch these as well, but no where good enough as yours, I had a load of dew to deal with. It was a fantastic site to see them.

hotspur (Chris) · #3 13-09-2010, 11:10 AM

well done,no 4 is very nice.

Liz · #4 13-09-2010, 12:49 PM

Beautiful images Stephen!!

troypiggo (Troy) · #5 13-09-2010, 04:51 PM

I was at a wedding on Sat night, went outside for some fresh air, looked up, saw this awesome conjunction and thought to myself "I bet Stephen will be out there, somewhere, imaging this!"

I won.

Awesome set there.

Matt Wastell (Matt) · #6 13-09-2010, 08:15 PM

Hi Stephen
Image 1 is a cracker - thanks for sharing!

StephenM (Stephen) · #7 13-09-2010, 09:50 PM

Thanks very much Malcolm, Chris, Liz, Troy and Matt! I appreciate the comments.

When we decided to go camping I had this conjunction in the back of my mind, but I'd never been to this campsite before so I was expecting to have to go for a drive to get a good vantage point. As it turned out the first image was taken from almost the inside the tent, and I only had to walk about 10 m to take the others!

Cheers,
Stephen

firstlight (Tony) · #8 14-09-2010, 11:12 PM

Great sequence... like the colours of the first couple, but I REALLY like no 5 with the reflection of the Moon in the lake.

Cheers
Tony

lacad01 (Adam) · #9 15-09-2010, 07:50 AM

Great set of shots Stephen

Quark (Trevor) · #10 15-09-2010, 12:31 PM

Fine work Stephen, you are certainly on top of your game with these wide field shots.

Regards
Trevor

StephenM (Stephen) · #11 15-09-2010, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by firstlight

Great sequence... like the colours of the first couple, but I REALLY like no 5 with the reflection of the Moon in the lake.

Cheers
Tony

Thanks Tony! Unfortunately the full size version of #5 is a bit noisy. I'll have to work more on it and see if I can remove the noise.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lacad01

Great set of shots Stephen

Thanks Adam, glad you like them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quark

Fine work Stephen, you are certainly on top of your game with these wide field shots.

Regards
Trevor

Thanks Trevor! As I said above, the vantage point from our campsite was just about perfect, and the view was spectacular. So I was glad to come away with some images.

Cheers,
Stephen