Jupiter among the stars

 

 

DESCRIPTION:

For several years I took planetary photography and I presented my photos, like everyone else, with an aseptic black background. Lately, stimulated also by my work ( I am professor in a high school ) I reflected on the fact that, if we want amateur photography to be effective in bringing young people to astronomy, it must be presented in a suggestive way, it must be emotional.

This photo was designed with this purpose and is the overlapping of two images ( one planetary and one of deep sky ) which were taken in two different days and places.

The planetary photo captures Jupiter during a double eclipse. One of the satellites involved , Ganymede, is visible to the right of the planet.

The deep sky photo shows the Milky way, in particular the regions of Cygnus and Cepheus.

 

IMAGE INFORMATIONS: PLANETARY PHOTO

Data: 2021-10-04 ( yyyy-mm-dd )20:05 UTC

location: Acireale

coordinate:37,626N – 15,148E

 

TECHNICAL DATA

camera: QHY5III462C

telescope: C11 Edge HD + barlow 2x

focal lenght:5600mm

aperture: f/20

exposition time: 1/30 “ ( single frame ) , stack of about 1800 frames.

software: Photoshop, Astro Art, Registax, WinJupos

 

IMAGE INFORMATIONS: DEEP SKY PHOTO

Data: 2021-07-15 ( yyyy-mm-dd ) 21:55 UTC

location: Etna

coordinate:37,796N – 15,038E

 

TECHNICAL DATA

camera: NIKON D810a

camera lens: Nikon 35mm f/1,8G

focal lenght: 35mm

aperture: f/4

exposition time: 60 “ ( single frame ) , stack of about 40 frames.

software: Photoshop, Astro Art

 

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