Tonight: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/Jupiter-Dances-with-the-Moon-1... Some lucky observers in South America will be able to see an occultation.
Thanks for the info. Chuck. I’ll try to catch it, tonight. On Jan 21, 2013, at 7:18 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
Tonight:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/Jupiter-Dances-with-the-Moon-1...
Some lucky observers in South America will be able to see an occultation. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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I just found Jupiter in daylight with a 10x50mm bino using the moon as a guide. 4:10 pm MST. The sun still about ten or twelve degrees above the horizon. Easy in the bino, but I left my glasses in the house so it was impossible to see naked-eye.
Good heads up Chuck. Found Jupiter with my 7X50 binos and then found it naked eye. Confirmed by my 13 year old daughter. Mat -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 6:22 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon-Jupiter photo op I just found Jupiter in daylight with a 10x50mm bino using the moon as a guide. 4:10 pm MST. The sun still about ten or twelve degrees above the horizon. Easy in the bino, but I left my glasses in the house so it was impossible to see naked-eye. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". This message and any attachments are solely for the use of intended recipients. The information contained herein may include trade secrets, protected health or personal information, privileged or otherwise confidential information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you received this email in error, and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your system. Thank you for your cooperation
Good work Chuck, Had I thought of it I would have tried the same. Thanks Rodger C. Fry -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 4:22 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon-Jupiter photo op I just found Jupiter in daylight with a 10x50mm bino using the moon as a guide. 4:10 pm MST. The sun still about ten or twelve degrees above the horizon. Easy in the bino, but I left my glasses in the house so it was impossible to see naked-eye. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
I braved the cold to take a few photos of the conjunction... http://smithplanet.com/astro/solarsystem/conjunctions/images/final.jpg And with labels... http://smithplanet.com/astro/solarsystem/conjunctions/images/finalLabelled.j... Not visible is Europa, which was directly in front of Jupiter at the time. Bracketed exposures using a DSLR and 250mm lens. Jared On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Rodger C. Fry <rcfry@comcast.net> wrote:
Good work Chuck, Had I thought of it I would have tried the same.
Thanks Rodger C. Fry
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 4:22 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon-Jupiter photo op
I just found Jupiter in daylight with a 10x50mm bino using the moon as a guide. 4:10 pm MST. The sun still about ten or twelve degrees above the horizon. Easy in the bino, but I left my glasses in the house so it was impossible to see naked-eye. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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Nice! Whats say you send them to the various TV weather folk? weather@abc4.tv weather@ksl.com weather@kutv2.com (can't find an address for 13). patrick On 21 Jan 2013, at 21:04, Jared Smith wrote:
I braved the cold to take a few photos of the conjunction...
http://smithplanet.com/astro/solarsystem/conjunctions/images/final.jpg
And with labels...
http://smithplanet.com/astro/solarsystem/conjunctions/images/finalLabelled.j...
Not visible is Europa, which was directly in front of Jupiter at the time. Bracketed exposures using a DSLR and 250mm lens.
Jared
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Rodger C. Fry <rcfry@comcast.net> wrote:
Good work Chuck, Had I thought of it I would have tried the same.
Thanks Rodger C. Fry
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 4:22 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon-Jupiter photo op
I just found Jupiter in daylight with a 10x50mm bino using the moon as a guide. 4:10 pm MST. The sun still about ten or twelve degrees above the horizon. Easy in the bino, but I left my glasses in the house so it was impossible to see naked-eye. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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A fine view, Jared! What do you mean by "bracketed exposures"? Is this a composite of more than one photo? Thanks, Joe ________________________________ From: Jared Smith <jared@smithplanet.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon-Jupiter photo op I braved the cold to take a few photos of the conjunction... http://smithplanet.com/astro/solarsystem/conjunctions/images/final.jpg And with labels... http://smithplanet.com/astro/solarsystem/conjunctions/images/finalLabelled.j... Not visible is Europa, which was directly in front of Jupiter at the time. Bracketed exposures using a DSLR and 250mm lens. Jared On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Rodger C. Fry <rcfry@comcast.net> wrote:
Good work Chuck, Had I thought of it I would have tried the same.
Thanks Rodger C. Fry
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 4:22 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon-Jupiter photo op
I just found Jupiter in daylight with a 10x50mm bino using the moon as a guide. 4:10 pm MST. The sun still about ten or twelve degrees above the horizon. Easy in the bino, but I left my glasses in the house so it was impossible to see naked-eye. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
A fine view, Jared! What do you mean by "bracketed exposures"? Is this a composite of more than one photo?
Thank you. Yes, it's a composite of two photos with differing exposures - one for the moon and one for Jupiter and its moons. Jared
Thanks, Jared. I'm trying to figure out how you did it. Did you then overlap them? -- Joe ________________________________ From: Jared Smith <jared@smithplanet.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon-Jupiter photo op On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
A fine view, Jared! What do you mean by "bracketed exposures"? Is this a composite of more than one photo?
Thank you. Yes, it's a composite of two photos with differing exposures - one for the moon and one for Jupiter and its moons. Jared _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
Remember the old commercial for Memorex audio tape that went "Is it real or is it Memorex?" These days it's: Is it real or is it Photoshop?" Grins, patrick On 21 Jan 2013, at 23:08, Joe Bauman wrote:
Thanks, Jared. I'm trying to figure out how you did it. Did you then overlap them? -- Joe
________________________________ From: Jared Smith <jared@smithplanet.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon-Jupiter photo op
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
A fine view, Jared! What do you mean by "bracketed exposures"? Is this a composite of more than one photo?
Thank you. Yes, it's a composite of two photos with differing exposures - one for the moon and one for Jupiter and its moons.
Jared
Some nice pics by group members! If anyone had decided to zoom in on Jupiter during this event, they would have found the Great Red Spot visible.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
These days it's: Is it real or is it Photoshop?"
If you're talking about astrophotography, nothing is entirely real. Cameras capture more detail, depth of field, exposure, etc. than the eye ever can. In this case, blending two exposures is required - unless you want a blown out, featureless moon or Jupiter's moons missing. If you've ever seen an amazing photo of the Andromeda galaxy or the Orion nebula (or pretty much any other deep space object), they almost always involve blending - you can't expose for the core without losing fine detail, and vice versa. I once read that astrophotography is about maintaining the integrity of the stellar object, while throwing in a hefty dose of artistic creativity. To answer Joe's question, this image was a combination of two photos taken with different shutter speeds (one at 1/200 second and one at 1 second) taken just moments apart. I used a steady tripod, remote shutter trigger, mirror lockup, manual focus, and a vibration reduction lens. I usually would fuss with other settings to get more detail out of Jupiter, but it was too cold to bother. I brought both photos into Photoshop and precisely aligned them by toggling the layers, I then cropped the Jupiter image down to just the relevant portions (cropped out the extremely blown out moon), adjusted brightness/shadows a bit so the background black matched, and then sharpened the moon layer just a bit. Jared
I read in S&T some years ago, that even if you were standing right in the middle of the Orion nebula, it would still appear as a faint grey mist to the naked-eye- no color at all. Just covering the entire sky, and still relatively dim. On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jared Smith <jared@smithplanet.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
These days it's: Is it real or is it Photoshop?"
If you're talking about astrophotography, nothing is entirely real.
Hello all, I know I do not post here often but I read what you post and you give me quick heads up on astronomy events that even some of my goto sites don't post. I have an 8" Dob and when I do take AP its with a 5MP camera phone (Moon, Sun... Can't really do better than that :) Here are my two pics, unfortunately my little camera phone does not have enough oomph to grab Jupiter's bands or the moons. http://imageshack.us/a/img442/2722/26500310200390657154476.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img842/8426/39543510200390657354481.jpg
Terrific shots John, you did great! Thanks for posting those. On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:30 AM, <john@fxlight.com> wrote:
Hello all, I know I do not post here often but I read what you post and you give me quick heads up on astronomy events that even some of my goto sites don't post. I have an 8" Dob and when I do take AP its with a 5MP camera phone (Moon, Sun... Can't really do better than that :) Here are my two pics, unfortunately my little camera phone does not have enough oomph to grab Jupiter's bands or the moons.
http://imageshack.us/a/img442/2722/26500310200390657154476.jpg
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Very nice! ________________________________ From: "john@fxlight.com" <john@fxlight.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon Jupiter pics. Hello all, I know I do not post here often but I read what you post and you give me quick heads up on astronomy events that even some of my goto sites don't post. I have an 8" Dob and when I do take AP its with a 5MP camera phone (Moon, Sun... Can't really do better than that :) Here are my two pics, unfortunately my little camera phone does not have enough oomph to grab Jupiter's bands or the moons. http://imageshack.us/a/img442/2722/26500310200390657154476.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img842/8426/39543510200390657354481.jpg _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
Actually, I HAVE been able to get the Trapezium and the fainter wings of the Orion Nebula without masking, burning or dodging. It's a matter of lying shorter exposures of the whole thing on top of longer exposures. Here it is: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=5514 Thanks, Joe ________________________________ From: Jared Smith <jared@smithplanet.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon-Jupiter photo op On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
These days it's: Is it real or is it Photoshop?"
If you're talking about astrophotography, nothing is entirely real. Cameras capture more detail, depth of field, exposure, etc. than the eye ever can. In this case, blending two exposures is required - unless you want a blown out, featureless moon or Jupiter's moons missing. If you've ever seen an amazing photo of the Andromeda galaxy or the Orion nebula (or pretty much any other deep space object), they almost always involve blending - you can't expose for the core without losing fine detail, and vice versa. I once read that astrophotography is about maintaining the integrity of the stellar object, while throwing in a hefty dose of artistic creativity. To answer Joe's question, this image was a combination of two photos taken with different shutter speeds (one at 1/200 second and one at 1 second) taken just moments apart. I used a steady tripod, remote shutter trigger, mirror lockup, manual focus, and a vibration reduction lens. I usually would fuss with other settings to get more detail out of Jupiter, but it was too cold to bother. I brought both photos into Photoshop and precisely aligned them by toggling the layers, I then cropped the Jupiter image down to just the relevant portions (cropped out the extremely blown out moon), adjusted brightness/shadows a bit so the background black matched, and then sharpened the moon layer just a bit. Jared _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
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