I took advantage of the clear pre-dawn skies again this morning, and captured the conjunction. This time I drove to Graceville, and captured the four plants reflected in the calm Brisbane River. When I first downloaded the image I was a bit diasappointed, but with a bit of adjusting I think it's come out OK. I think I'm still getting used to exposure with the 50D - I need to look more at the histogram rather the the image on the preview screen, especially when it's dark. Otherwise I tend to be underexposing. Anyway, here's the image. Hope you like it!
Thanks very much for all the comments David, Mike, Dennis, Liz, Troy, Rolf and Tony! It is a nice spot for these dawn conjunctions, and I got lucky with the reflections because there was a bit of wind on the water when I first arrived at about 4:50am, but a few minutes later the wind disappeared. This location is right in the middle of suburbia, but there is a golf course across the river so it's possible to get a shot without any lights in the frame.
I missed the meteors David, because I was too focussed on recording the conjunction. Would have been nice to catch a meteor streaking across the frame though!
