Moon, Venus & Jupiter Pics
- Thread starter andy_mk3
- Start date
i tried but i'm to far in town and surrounded my lights, would be rubbish, i just finished work so jupiter is now to low and i ain't driving 20 miles outside town to get a pic!
Really good view of Moon and Venus right now though!
Really good view of Moon and Venus right now though!
Soldato
- Joined
- 5 Jun 2003
- Posts
- 8,732
- Location
- sawley/ long eaton
seen these last night at work very bright in the sky, wish i could have had my cam at work
Soldato
- Joined
- 15 Feb 2009
- Posts
- 4,298
- Location
- Bristol
Arghh the one time I didn't bring my camera home from uni! 
Compact camera automatic settings attempt tonight haha
Compact camera automatic settings attempt tonight haha
Associate
- Joined
- 6 Apr 2011
- Posts
- 132
- Location
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
beautiful pictures.
How can u get such clear pictures at night ? My compact camera always shoot pictures less contrast than urs
How can u get such clear pictures at night ? My compact camera always shoot pictures less contrast than urs
Associate
- Joined
- 20 Mar 2003
- Posts
- 2,323
- Location
- On the stool at the end of the bar
Best shot i managed to get of them, you can just about see them in the sky!! Unfortunatley couldn't stay longer to wait for pitch black.
Cromer Sunset with Jupiter & Venus by zymurgy661, on Flickr
Cromer Sunset with Jupiter & Venus by zymurgy661, on Flickr
well the only night which i had clear skie was last week and only manage to get a shot of the moon. but if i get some clear skie next few days i try to get some shot of jupiter and venus. so for now here my moon shot from last week
did i little post processing to pull out the colours a little abit
here same shot but with some HDR Toning and hyper Saturation add to it.
still little new to hyper saturation and HDR Toning so their a blue and orange edge to the photo.
did i little post processing to pull out the colours a little abit
here same shot but with some HDR Toning and hyper Saturation add to it.
still little new to hyper saturation and HDR Toning so their a blue and orange edge to the photo.
i hook my Eos 550d up to my 600mm telescope and added a 1.4x teleconvertor to increase the focal lenght.
{Canon 550d>Kenko 1.4x dgx 300 pro>dslr max>extention tube(spacer)>eveostar 80ED Ds - pro}
focal lenght: 840mm
apecture: f/10.5
Shutter speed: 1/125 - 1/400
iso:100/200
at some point i'm hoping to get the bits and piece's i need to hook up my 550d to my other telescope which is much more powerfull (Meade etx 125pe) focal length of 1900mm
{Canon 550d>Kenko 1.4x dgx 300 pro>dslr max>extention tube(spacer)>eveostar 80ED Ds - pro}
focal lenght: 840mm
apecture: f/10.5
Shutter speed: 1/125 - 1/400
iso:100/200
at some point i'm hoping to get the bits and piece's i need to hook up my 550d to my other telescope which is much more powerfull (Meade etx 125pe) focal length of 1900mm
Last edited:
ok i manage to setup the telescope and hook up the camera to it few hours ago. now i only took two shots as one never try taking shots of the planet and stars only the moon so still trying to figure out the setting for planet and star. as for the picture when i look throught the viewfinder on the camera i couldn't see anything so it took two blind shots at 1 and 5 seconds exposure. so when i used the zoom function on camera to view images their were some stars and what i think is possible mars, venus and jupiter so got very very lucky but i won't know what i got for sure until i download the images to my mac for processing so i try and get them on here sometime tomorrow.
might be saturn instead of mars. but i know for sure tomorrow when i download photo's to mac for processing to weather or not i got planet or some random thing.
might be saturn instead of mars. but i know for sure tomorrow when i download photo's to mac for processing to weather or not i got planet or some random thing.
Last edited:
Pentax 105SDP (Apo telescope, 670mm fl, f/6.38) with a 2x power mate giving 1340mm f/12. Unguided, 3 second exposure with an ATIK 383L but downsized to 800x600 from 8MP. Used a Baader neodymium filter:
Usually planets are too bright for the 383 as it's designed for longer exposures. This was so early in in the phase at it didn't saturate.
Jupiter, unguided using same scope & 2x with just an ATIK Titan (650x450 resolution) for high frame rate (~17fps, 1/10,000 sec exp) giving ~700 frames stacked in registax 5.1. Again, a neodymium filter. Cropped at native res:
Usually planets are too bright for the 383 as it's designed for longer exposures. This was so early in in the phase at it didn't saturate.
Jupiter, unguided using same scope & 2x with just an ATIK Titan (650x450 resolution) for high frame rate (~17fps, 1/10,000 sec exp) giving ~700 frames stacked in registax 5.1. Again, a neodymium filter. Cropped at native res:
Last edited:
The three stars in a horizontal line on the left is orions's belt then take the left most star and down is M42 nebula (the diagonal line to stars). Middle-right (just above the moon) is M45 (the little group of stars). The orange star above orion's belt is Betelgeuse - which should be going bang shortly.. (nice colour btw!)
You could build yourself a barn door tracker (just two pieces of wood, a hinge and a motor moving at a predetermined rate) which would give you a little longer exposure time before the stars trail.
Lastly the pattern you have from the moon is from the iris.
Last edited:
