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How many moons?

What: The conjunction of Jupiter and its four large satellites with Earth’s Moon.

How: Canon 40D DSLR camera, 66 mm Baader Scopos telescope with F= 450 mm, plus processing to emphasise Jupiter’s moons. Two exposures were taken with just a few seconds delay to best capture the details of both the bright Moon and faint moons of Jupiter.

When: 2 November 2012

Where: Madrid, Spain

Who: Antonio Peña

 

What our judges said: “It is inspiring to present in one frame, a giant planet – 318 times the mass of Earth – and five moons, including our own, given the hundreds of millions of kilometres that separate Earth and Jupiter.”

 

Credits: A. Peña

 

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Uploaded on December 4, 2012
Taken on November 2, 2012