Quarter Moon & Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
Monday night 2020-12-21 was special: 1) It's the day of winter solstice, 2) the Moon is at its first quarter, and 3) the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. It’s been nearly 400 years since the two planets passed this close to each other in the sky. Jupiter and Saturn are actually 456 million miles (734,000 million km) apart. Saturn is nearly twice as far away as Jupiter.
I took a shot of the Quarter Moon at twilight, and after sunset a shot of Jupiter and Saturn with a 600mm long lens on a crop sensor camera, resulting in a long focal length of 900mm. I combined the two shots to scale. As you can see the planets appear to be much much smaller, even though they are ginormous compared to the moon.
If you zoom in and look carefully you can see 3 of the 4 moons of Jupiter.
For each shot, I processed a realistic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and did some minimal curve adjustments. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/6.3, 900 mm, 1/60 & 1/40 sec, ISO 200 & 400, Sony A6000, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC5594_55_hdr1rea1f.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Quarter Moon & Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
Monday night 2020-12-21 was special: 1) It's the day of winter solstice, 2) the Moon is at its first quarter, and 3) the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. It’s been nearly 400 years since the two planets passed this close to each other in the sky. Jupiter and Saturn are actually 456 million miles (734,000 million km) apart. Saturn is nearly twice as far away as Jupiter.
I took a shot of the Quarter Moon at twilight, and after sunset a shot of Jupiter and Saturn with a 600mm long lens on a crop sensor camera, resulting in a long focal length of 900mm. I combined the two shots to scale. As you can see the planets appear to be much much smaller, even though they are ginormous compared to the moon.
If you zoom in and look carefully you can see 3 of the 4 moons of Jupiter.
For each shot, I processed a realistic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and did some minimal curve adjustments. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/6.3, 900 mm, 1/60 & 1/40 sec, ISO 200 & 400, Sony A6000, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC5594_55_hdr1rea1f.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography