Venus-Jupiter Conjunction - Salem, OR - 7-30-15
Busted out my old Celestron C8 last night for the first time in years to photograph Venus and Jupiter together. This was shot by directly attaching my DSLR to the telescope - using it as a 2000mm f/10 lens (~3200mm on my APS-C sensor? I may have been using a focal reducer though... can't remember now) and aiming it out an opened window in our apartment.
Not the best shot (this is a blend of 3 different exposures to get the phase of Venus and the moons of Jupiter in the same image... if I were to expose for Venus alone - Jupiter would disappear entirely due to it's lower apparent magnitude) but it was quite a sight to see regardless. The inset image at the top left is a higher-mag view of Venus - showing color separation not due to my scope/optics - but due to atmospheric dispersion (these objects were getting pretty low in the sky!)
The moons of Jupiter visible here (from L to R): Ganymede, Europa, Io, and Callisto.
Venus-Jupiter Conjunction - Salem, OR - 7-30-15
Busted out my old Celestron C8 last night for the first time in years to photograph Venus and Jupiter together. This was shot by directly attaching my DSLR to the telescope - using it as a 2000mm f/10 lens (~3200mm on my APS-C sensor? I may have been using a focal reducer though... can't remember now) and aiming it out an opened window in our apartment.
Not the best shot (this is a blend of 3 different exposures to get the phase of Venus and the moons of Jupiter in the same image... if I were to expose for Venus alone - Jupiter would disappear entirely due to it's lower apparent magnitude) but it was quite a sight to see regardless. The inset image at the top left is a higher-mag view of Venus - showing color separation not due to my scope/optics - but due to atmospheric dispersion (these objects were getting pretty low in the sky!)
The moons of Jupiter visible here (from L to R): Ganymede, Europa, Io, and Callisto.