Quick Shots Of The Moon And Mars, Tonight January, If your sky is clear, get out there! |
Quick Shots Of The Moon And Mars, Tonight January, If your sky is clear, get out there! |
Jan 8 2006, 10:14 PM
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Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136 |
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Jan 8 2006, 10:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Nico:
It's helluva difficult trying to capture both Mars and the Moon - the difference in brightness is huge! These are straight-out-of-the camera shots on a Nikon D70 with a 300mm lens and 1.6 teleconverter, exposed at about 1.6 secs, f-something-or-other. Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jan 8 2006, 10:57 PM
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Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136 |
I know what you mean Bob, I exposed 1/30 s @ f30 on a 10D and 70 mm lens,for the Moon-Mars shot (ISO 100, temp 5200K)
I made some others but I'm having a hard time getting proper focus Nico -------------------- photographer, space imagery enthusiast, proud father and partner, and geek.
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Jan 9 2006, 11:31 AM
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Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136 |
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Jan 9 2006, 01:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
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This Is SKY & TELESCOPE's AstroAlert for Occultations ================================================================== 1. Passage of the Moon across the Pleiades Monday evening for North America and northern South America. _____________________________________________________________ 1. Passage of the Moon across the Pleiades Monday evening, Jan. 9 On Monday evening, January 9, less than 24 hours from now, the 82% sunlit waxing gibbous Moon will pass over the Pleiades cluster for observers in North America and northern South America. The Moon will miss most of the bright stars for observers in Canada and the northwestern USA, but will occult Merope, Alcyone, Atlas, and/or Pleione for most of the southern and eastern USA and Mexico. Predictions for the occultations of these stars computed for hundreds of North American cities are on IOTA's Web site at http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota or, directly, at http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/200...am/pleiadna.htm . In the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America, other bright Pleiades stars will also be occulted; Spanish-language information and predictions for these events for the major cities in the region, set up by Claudio Martinez of the Occultation Section of LIADA (Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia), are at http://www.espacioprofundo.com.ar/verartic..._Pleyades..html In the USA, the grazes of the bright stars will be on the Moon's sunlit limb and, at such a bright gibbous phase, will be unobservable. Some observers have predictions for the graze of Alcyone and Atlas, but even those bright stars will be overwhelmed by the bright side of the Moon. So observers in the USA will either have to be content with observing the numerous total occultations (several 8th to 6th-mag. stars will be occulted in addition to the "big 4") from any convenient location, or try to observe a graze of one of these fainter stars, which will be quite difficult due to proximity of sunlit features. In a notice I distributed last night to Mid-Atlantic observers, I mentioned a grazing occultation of ZC 564 that will occur about 60 miles south of Washington, DC. The latest Astro Meteo (Clear Sky Clock) forecast shows that it will be clear across most of Maryland, DC, and northern Virginia, but cloudy in a band just covering the ZC 564 path, and south of it. So I do not plan to undertake an expedition for that graze. Other areas that should have a clear, or mostly cloud-free, view of the Pleiades passage include WV, s.PA, NJ, NYC, Long Island, s. OH, s. IN, n. KY, e. MA, CT, RI, & s.e. NH in the northeastern USA, and all of the southwestern USA except California north of Napa Valley and Chico. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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