Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, good one. It has been miserable here - cloudy and wet - so I didn't bother. If we do get a nice evening over Christmas, I'll take Dobbo for a trundle onto the patio and show my sons the Orion nebula and Mars. Douglas On 23/12/2020 13:03, Howard Ritter via LUG wrote: > Aram? > > That?s a nice scene-setting tableau. I didn?t have such a nice foreground, > so I concentrated on the telescopic view. > > We had weather that was much better than forecast on the evening of Monday > 21 December, and I was able to get several images of Jupiter + Saturn in > between giving looks though the eyepiece to all and sundry who wandered by > (masks on). Nikon D850A, 6? f/7 apo astronomical telescope plus Barlow > lens, a tele-extender for a telescope, giving an EFL of 2200 mm. Here > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Nikon+Astro/Jupiter-Saturn.jpg.html> > is the best of the bunch, to go along with my image of the same tableau > from three nights earlier. > > In addition to the two planets, Jupiter?s four Galilean satellites are > seen nicely spread out along Jupiter?s equatorial plane, and a field star > looking like a fifth satellite is at the top left. The scene is tilted > because the path of the planets, the ecliptic, is angled from the > ?horizontal? in any case, more so the nearer to the horizon. I left it > that way because I think it looks better than horizontal. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Nikon+Astro/Jupiter-Saturn.jpg.html > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Nikon+Astro/Jupiter-Saturn.jpg.html> > > ?howard > > > >> On Dec23, 2020, at 0059, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> >> wrote: >> >> Well, I gave it a try tonight. Missed it last night due to clouds. >> Didn't do that well tonight since just before I was ready our washing >> machine self destructed so had to rush. I might try again tomorrow >> night. Anybody else have any success? >> >> Christmas Star Jupiter Saturn-6311 (leica-users.org) >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Christmas+Star+Jupiter+Saturn-6311.jpg.html> >> >> Nikon D750, Nikon 70-200/4 at 4.5, ISO 1250, 200mm, 2.0 sec. >> >> Comments welcome >> >> Aram >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information