Shutter Fodder
Luna and Jupiter
Posted by Jason Politte (Conway, AR, United States) on 6 January 2012 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.
I decided to make my first foray into astrophotography two nights ago. I attached my DSLR to my Meade 2080 8" Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope, which basically turned the telescope into a 2000mm lens (3200mm with the crop factor taken into account).
A total of three different photos were taken to create this image. First, I shot a photo of the moon. Then I trained the telescope toward Jupiter and exposed two seperate shots - one to capture the four Galilean moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto; and the second to capture planetary details, such as the cloud bands.
I then combined the photos to represent the conjunction between the two celestial bodies that occurred this week.
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@Jaytee: Thank you very much, Jaytee.
@Loukas: Thank you, Loukas.
@Skyriani: Thank you very much, and you're welcome.
@ursulakatariina: Thank you very much.
@tatar@y: Thank you very much, Raymonde.
@Soheil: Thank you very much - nice moon shot.
@CElliottUK: Thank you very much, Chris.
@Doug: Thank you very much, Doug.
@Becky: Thanks Becky - it is indeed amazing. :-)
@Mhelene: Thank you very much.
@Stephen: Thank you very much, Stephen.
@grouser: Thanks Grouser. I'm sure the Big E is just out of frame. Who knows, she may even soar through sometime soon. ;-)
@Mariana M.: Thank you, Mariana.
@klausZ: Thank you very much, klausZ.
@Francisco Romero: Thank you very much, Francisco.
@Tomek: Thank you.
@Rick: Thank you very much, Rick. Astrophotography is so labor intensive and time consuming, I seriously doubt I'll be posting one astrophoto per day, but I do look forward to imaging some deep space objects.
@Twojays: Thank you very much, Joyce. Yes, the stars have called to me since I was a child, and that has never departed my being.
@Jeff: Ha ha - no idea, Jeff . . . perhaps the Andromeda Galaxy, but it won't be tomorrow - that's for sure. Thank you very much.
@Nicou: Merci beaucoup, Nicou!
@Phil David Morris 2011: Thank you very much, Phil. I would much love to do the same, to see the Earth from space. How amazing it would be if space travel was as everyday and ordinary as it is in science fiction. For now, I shall only have my dreams and my telescope.
@Denny Jump Photo: Thank you very much, Denny . . . "Super combo compo" . . . that just has to be some sort of new "Dennyism". ;-))
@Steve Rice: Thank you very much, Steve.
@Eric Cousineau: Thank you very much, Eric - I appreciate that. :-)
@Victoria: Thank you, Victoria.
@RBL: Thank you very much, Ruthie.
@Elaine Hancock: Thank you so much, Elaine.
@franz: Thanks Franz! It's important to watch your shutter speed when photographing the moon. Perhaps the best advice I can give is to treat it like the sun. One good first step is using the Sunny 16 rule for a full moon, and that's F16 at 1/100. Give that a try sometime and adjust from there. :-)
