Jupiter and moon conjucture last night

[Joe]

Last night Jupiter appeared to be in close proximity to the moon. Here is a composite image that I took. Due to their varying brightness, you had to expose both separately. If you exposed correctly for the moon, you wouldn't see Jupiter, and if you exposed for Jupiter, the moon would be a bright white circle.

[Roush6NY]

Pretty cool .. Nice shot

[PhilDernerJr]

What was the exposure for the Jupiter? I didn't know our style of cameras could do that.

[Zee71]

Very nice

[Joe]

Thanks for the compliments. Phil, there was actually three exposures, one for our moon, one for Jupiter, and one for Jupiter's moons. Our moon was ISO 200, F 11, at 1/500th second. Jupiter's moons were shot at ISO 2000, F5.6 at 1/13th second. Jupiter was shot at ISO 100 for 1/40th second. Our moon and Jupiter's moons were shot at 400mm, Jupiter itself was shot at 2500mm using a telescope and resized to the correct proportions as it would appear at 400mm.

Here is just Jupiter and it's moons:


This was from earlier in the year with the moons as it appeared at the time. I had to sell the scope recently so the Jupiter used was a few months old. It is a composite as mentioned, however the locations or positions of everything is as it was seen from Wednesday night.

[Just_Lucas]

Nice mate,Should send them into nasa and see what they think of it :)

[Ychocky]

Great work Joe!

[Joe]

Thanks for the compliments guys. I don't think that NASA would be interested in the shot as it fails in comparison to the shots that they post on their site.

[gonzalu]

Wow, superb stuff Joe... bring that 2500mm out to JFK one day. Mark and I have good use for it

Lucas, NASA has toys better than ours for pictures better than ours (no disrespect to Joe)

BTW, to rub it in, this is a WIDE ANGLE shot with the Hubble Wide Field Camera lol...

[Just_Lucas]

Damn lol,Always worth a try though if not you could always Publish it on www.1x.com Really old Pro Photography website recently stumbled across it last year :c