Moon and Mars

Mr Jones · 29 Jan 2010 at 22:59

Martin, I think that purple halo is due to the time in between the 2 exposure shot? The moon moves from left to right, thus thicker purple halo on the left than right. Just a guess.

syke · 29 Jan 2010 at 23:04

Was gonna try get Mars too, but ended up just testing a few lenses

martinturner · 29 Jan 2010 at 23:05

The purple ring only appears on the photo with the shortest exposure?

Bluelion · 29 Jan 2010 at 23:06

Hmm you folks got the composition a lot better than I did. Decided to expose to the moon, which meant a very faint mars blob which is even fainter (invisible!) when scaled down to web sizes:

Still, moon was preddy at 400mm:

... and 550mm with the 1.4x:

Mr Jones · 29 Jan 2010 at 23:06

Now that's weird... must be some explanation somewhere.

greywolf · 30 Jan 2010 at 00:05

I didn't bother to do another exposure of just Mars

and now I cba to go back out.. so just the moon, taken with sigma 70-200mm.

Razor-BladE · 30 Jan 2010 at 00:23

Will the moon still be quite whole on say wednesday?

beermonster · 30 Jan 2010 at 00:54

Full moon is tomorrow so it should be big still.

Rojin · 30 Jan 2010 at 08:49

Well it was interesting to see how fast everything up there moves. I won't bother uploading my picture of the moon, I think you all might already know what it looks like

albert · 31 Jan 2010 at 22:15

I read this thread on Saturday night (30/1) so i took my camera outside for a few shots of the moon. Last shot of the night on my Panasonic FZ28 was on setting STARRY SKY MODE - 60 seconds ... put a 10 second timer on to avoid camera shake and took this one ..... surely on the right hand side that can't be Mars ... to the naked eye nothing was there ......

lord filbuster · 31 Jan 2010 at 23:14

I think it is probably lens flare from the street light. There aren't any nebulas or galaxies that would be visible in that area. It definitely isn't mars though. The only thing it could be is Andromeda, but i think it is in wrong place for that.

Cyclone · 1 Feb 2010 at 06:33

My effort at 5.30 this morning.

The Mad Rapper · 1 Feb 2010 at 11:52

albert said:
I read this thread on Saturday night (30/1) so i took my camera outside for a few shots of the moon. Last shot of the night on my Panasonic FZ28 was on setting STARRY SKY MODE - 60 seconds ... put a 10 second timer on to avoid camera shake and took this one ..... surely on the right hand side that can't be Mars ... to the naked eye nothing was there ......

OMG! It's Nuburi! We're doomed!

ViperZS · 1 Feb 2010 at 14:16

I didn't manage to get a shot when mars was out, because I had left all my memory cards at uni and I was home for the weekend

Here's a Blue Peter though!