Our Moon with Jupiter

[leelee970]

Last night (10^th February) wasn’t the best seeing conditions but thought I’d have a little fun with my trusty SPC900.

Seeing as the Moon was so bright and close to Jupiter I decided to take a few images and combine them to make an image scale.

Lee

[sologuitarist61]

Nice image and great processing skills!

[Langy]

That's great.

[rjc404]

Nice combination shot, really like it.

[furio]

Awesome!! Great job!

[MegaDonutz]

Nice !

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice combination

[barkis]

Nicely put together. Not only a great pic. It's somewhat educational too.

Ron.

[leelee970]

Thanks everyone for your comments.

The night wasn't too great but after all the bad weather I decided to have a little fun trying this.

I agree Ron, it puts things into perspective when you see those great close up images from other members.

Lee

[glowingturnip]

not often you get 5 moons in one pic :-)

is the small Jupiter+moon all one 'shot' as it were ?  i did hear that they were close to conjunction last night but didn't get to see it - was that the actual spacing and scale ?

[Pete Presland]

a couple of cracking images, very sharp focus on the moon well done!

[leelee970]

not often you get 5 moons in one pic :-)

is the small Jupiter+moon all one 'shot' as it were ?  i did hear that they were close to conjunction last night but didn't get to see it - was that the actual spacing and scale ?

Hi Stuart,

 

The small Jupiter with its moon was about 6° to 7° way from our Moon.

 

I took a little poetic license and moved them closer to get it in same shot.

I also took different exposures of the small Jupiter and then the small moons and combined them to give a single image, which I added next to our Moon.

Lee

[glowingturnip]

still, very nice shot, I like it.

I think there's supposed to be a proper conjunction of venus with the moon, morning of the 26th or something like that, could be a nice shot.  I won't be anywhere near my scope at the time unfortunately.