Conjunction Venus and thin crescent moon

[Helen]

The new thin crescent moon and Venus are quite close tonight - the moon underneath Venus.  It has to be worth a look

Helen

[johnfosteruk]

Positions at 8pm:

[tooth_dr]

Looks like Orion is about to slam dunk the moon into the Hyades 

[andrew63]

Just had a good view in binoculars - Venus around 5 degrees away from the moon, so nicely framed in 8x30s. The scene was further enhanced with a transatlantic plane on it's way home.

andrew

[steppenwolf]

I've just got back from a long walk up on the Downs to watch the sunset and the thin Moon and Venus on the return journey was the icing on the cake! Turning round to look where I had come from and Jupiter sprung into view - a special evening!

[Helen]

Got them before they disappeared behind next door's roof!

[Floater]

Caught a view myself. Gorgeous. Thanks for the heads-up, Helen. ?

[johnfosteruk]

I also observed through bins, plus a few shaky handheld shots. Beautiful.

 

[Ouroboros]

It was a beautiful sight. In the end I couldn't resist and got the camera out and tripod. Just a couple of shots. The first at more or less the correct exposure not to saturate the Moon. The second was over exposed to bring up earth shine. 

 

 

[Helen]

3 minutes ago, Ouroboros said:

It was a beautiful sight. In the end I couldn't resist and got the camera out and tripod. Just a couple of shots. The first at more or less the correct exposure not to saturate the Moon. The second was over exposed to bring up earth shine. 

 

 

Lovely!

I'm very much a novice on this DSLR lark, so must remember to overexpose for earthshine next time!

Helen

[johnfosteruk]

11 minutes ago, Ouroboros said:

It was a beautiful sight. In the end I couldn't resist and got the camera out and tripod. Just a couple of shots. The first at more or less the correct exposure not to saturate the Moon. The second was over exposed to bring up earth shine. 

 

 

Stunning images.

[Ouroboros]

4 minutes ago, Helen said:

Lovely!

I'm very much a novice on this DSLR lark, so must remember to overexpose for earthshine next time!

Helen

Thanks. My approach is to take a number of pics over a wide range of exposures anyway in the hope that maybe one or two will look good. What looks ok on the camera's screen outside may not look so good on the PC screen. 

[tooth_dr]

iPhone photo, managed to get a daddy long legs too 

[Ouroboros]

Chuckle. I like that. @tooth_dr

[mcrowle]

I too couldn't resist taking a few quick photos. Here's my favourites.

Regards, Mike.

[Guest]

10 hours ago, johnfosteruk said:

I also observed through bins, plus a few shaky handheld shots. Beautiful.

 

What a lovely photo. Thanks

 

[Guest]

10 hours ago, Helen said:

Lovely!

I'm very much a novice on this DSLR lark, so must remember to overexpose for earthshine next time!

Helen

Lovely image with the sky colours.

[Guest]

8 hours ago, mcrowle said:

I too couldn't resist taking a few quick photos. Here's my favourites.

Regards, Mike.

Nice image of the moon being illuminated with earth light.

[Guest]

15 hours ago, johnfosteruk said:

Positions at 8pm:

What is the planetarium programme please?

[AdeKing]

 

1 hour ago, Grumpy Martian said:

What is the planetarium programme please?

The screenshot looks like its from SkySafari.

Excellent planetarium for the iPhone and Android.

Ade

[Guest]

5 hours ago, AdeKing said:

 

The screenshot looks like its from SkySafari.

Excellent planetarium for the iPhone and Android.

Ade

I think that I will get a copy. Thanks Ade.

Perhaps we could meet up in Dorset sometime over the summer. How are you?

Martin. 

[johnfosteruk]

14 minutes ago, Grumpy Martian said:

I think that I will get a copy. Thanks Ade.

Perhaps we could meet up in Dorset sometime over the summer. How are you?

Martin. 

It certainly is sky Safari, and you certainly should get a copy, it's a very useful app.

[LukeSkywatcher]

22 hours ago, Ouroboros said:

It was a beautiful sight. In the end I couldn't resist and got the camera out and tripod. Just a couple of shots. The first at more or less the correct exposure not to saturate the Moon. The second was over exposed to bring up earth shine. 

 

 

Nice tip there about how to bring out Earth shine.