Six Degrees of Separation

[luigi]

Hi All,

I've been busy lately and couldn't dedicate time to IIS, I'm sorry about that I'll start to catch up now I hope!

I took this images last night as the Moon and Jupiter were at six degrees of separation and I couldn't resist the title.

I wanted to see what could be done with a DSLR without a telescope and I was very surprised by the level of detail I could get from Jupiter!

I'm including the Moon pic, Jupiter and a composite.

Link to a bigger resolution picture here:
http://www.luisargerich.com/night/h28997d19#h28997d19

Details:
Canon 550D, Canon 400mm F5.6L, Kenko TC 1.4x
Tripod, MLU and cable release
1/160, F11, ISO800
Manual Focused using Live-View
From Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Thanks for your feedback!
Luis

[Octane (Humayun)]

Luis,

Excellent shot, my friend!

H

[Clayton]

Very nice.

[iceman (Mike)]

That's fantastic! Not often you get such a detailed view of both bodies in the same field of view!

Lovely work.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

That's just awesome!
The clouds parted last night for a few minutes and THAT is what I saw. I wished I could have taken a photo of it.
So Thank You for posting.

[h0ughy (David)]

great shot - nice details and framing

[suma126 (Shane)]

the first one works for me

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Great shots. I suppose the Moon and Jupiter is not to scale in the composite image? Jupiter looks about 3x larger than it should be compared to the Moon.

[luigi]

Originally Posted by Octane

Luis,
Excellent shot, my friend!
H

Ty a lot H!

Originally Posted by Clayton

Very nice.

Thanks Clayton!

Originally Posted by iceman

That's fantastic! Not often you get such a detailed view of both bodies in the same field of view!
Lovely work.

Ty Ice!

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

That's just awesome!
The clouds parted last night for a few minutes and THAT is what I saw. I wished I could have taken a photo of it.
So Thank You for posting.

Ty! yes I tried to show what I saw, I was lucky to have clear skies here.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

great shot - nice details and framing

Ty H0ughy!

Originally Posted by suma126

the first one works for me

Ty Suma!

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Great shots. I suppose the Moon and Jupiter is not to scale in the composite image? Jupiter looks about 3x larger than it should be compared to the Moon.

You are right Sir! Hopefully it is close enough to what I could see and Remember. The moon is hard, it plays a lot of tricks in our brains and I don't know why.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Great shots. I suppose the Moon and Jupiter is not to scale in the composite image? Jupiter looks about 3x larger than it should be compared to the Moon.

Great images - I did this a few years back and the scale of Jupiter was about the diameter of the crater Plato!