Venus, Jupiter, Mars conjunction, 25th October 2015

[lukebl]

Hi all,

A view of the dawn sky over my Norfolk house. I think the hazy sky has added to the effect. Canon 700d, 24mm, 5 seconds at f/5.6, 800 ISO.

[Mr Spock]

Nicely done. They are a fine sight.

[Stub Mandrel]

A much nicer picture than I was able to get - very hazy, I could barely see Orion's brightest stars. Heavy rain yesterday made fog and dripping dew inevitable.

The haze here wiped out virtually everything - including Jupiter's moons. This is a stack of about five images, as you can see any stars are just faint single pixels, but at least Mars went red when I turned up the saturation ;-0

[laudropb]

Very nice photos. Thanks for posting.

[Davey-T]

Good capture, had the same trouble, mist and cloud.

Dave

[goodricke1]

Thin cloud for me also, I think this was more spectacular than June's event owing to the darker background -

[dweller25]

Great photos, thanks for sharing.

[Stub Mandrel]

My, rather uninspiring, shot does show the potential of stacking - it's about six frames, 1 second at IS) 1600 stacked manually (DSS either said not enough stars or tried to stack the noise) from a bridge camera, so no darks etc. (but it does automatic dark frame subtraction at longer exposures).

Despite the thick haze there are a good 10 or more stars (just) visible and checking Goodricke's image they all seem to be 'real' ones.

On a good night I will try taking many, many exposures of a starfield or M31 with the bridge camera and see what happens.

[Pete Presland]

Astunning sight in the morning, well to all that captured it.