Thursday, July 19, 2012
Venus, Jupiter and the Crescent Moon, July 15 and 16, 2012.
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| Venus, Jupiter and the Crescent Moon on July 15, 2012 at around 6:00 am. Aldebaran is just above Venus. 4 second exposure at 3x Zoom. Click to embiggen | Venus, Jupiter and the Crescent Moon on July 15, 2012 at around 6:45 am. Taken much later due to cloud. 2 second exposure at 3x Zoom. Click to embiggen |
Labels: Hyades, Jupiter, Pleiades, Venus
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Venus and Jupiter, 3 July 2012
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| Venus, Jupiter, Hyades (seen faintly) and Aldebaran on 30 June, 2012 (click to embiggen) | Venus, Jupiter, Pleiades, Hyades and Aldebaran on 3 July, 2012 (click to embiggen) |
The morning skyshow featuring Jupiter and Venus as seen from Adelaide, Australia. Images taken with a Canon IXUS 100 IS, 400 ASA, 3x Zoom, 4 seconds exposure, roughly around 6:30 am. Venus is the brightest object, Jupiter the next brightest and Aldebaran the brightest after that.
Labels: Hyades, Jupiter, Pleiades, Venus
Thursday, July 28, 2011
The Crescent Moon Near Mars (28 July)
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The left image shows a sweeping view of the sky from Jupiter (top left) to Orion, with the Pleiades and Hyades clusters as well. Mars is in line with the "horns" of Taurus the Bull, Elnath (the brightest star in line with Mars) and 24 Tauri. The right image is a 3x close-up. You will need to click and embiggen the image to see the stars at their best.
Labels: astrophotography, Hyades, Mars, Moon, Pleiades
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Moon and Contrails
The overexposed crescent Moon, a Jet contrail, sunlit clouds, Aldebaran (above Moon), Elnath an Mars (below Moon) as seen on the morning of July 27 at 6:30 am. Click to embiggen to see Aldebaran, Mars and Elnath (they can be quite difficult to find)Labels: astrophotography, Hyades, Mars, Moon
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Camping Moon with Added Venus
The crescent Moon next to El Nath (beta Taurii), Venus and Aldebaran (click to enlarge) on the evening of Saturday 21 April above the Stringy Bark campground, Deep Creek conservation park.We just had a wonderful weekend camping. I missed the Friday lineup of Antares, Venus and the Moon, due to traffic issues making us late to the campsite. But that night the heavens spread above us in an amazing Jewelled carpet. One of the most startling constellations was the Emu, an Indigenous Australian constellation that consists mostly of dark nebula. It stretches from the Southern cross to past Scorpius. Most people are unfamiliar with it, but when it is pointed out, the dark star clouds forever more form an Emu.
Saturday was a nice but strenuous walk down into Deep Creek, where wild seas meet an equally wild landscape. See the stereogram to the left I created of the headland (try centering on the pointy triangular bit in the middle then crossing your eyes, you may need to click to enlarge it).That night, tired but happy and scoffing down large amounts of spaghetti bolognaise, I caught the scene up the top with Venus, ALdebaran and the Moon (in the enlarged version you can just see the Hyades).
Then the clouds rolled in. I had the film camera set up to photograph an iridium flare, the clouds broke at the last moment ... and so too did the cable release of the camera. I held the shutter open manually, but I'm sure the image will be too wobbly to be of interest. That said, the Flare occurred just above Saturn, and was very good to see, before more cloud blotted out the sky at last.
Needless to say, I didn't get to see comet Lovejoy. But it was a wonderful weekend nonetheless.
Labels: bushwalking, Hyades, Moon, Observational Astronomy, Venus
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