Night Images / Discuss

Glass_House    says:

You have a few nights to get a good shot so if it was cloudy yesterday (as it was for me and will be again tonight) don't give up yet. You still have the 1st and 2nd to get a fairly close grouping and on the 3rd, Jupiter will be sitting directly on top of the moon (with Venus out of the picture)
EDIT(this is wrong, sorry, the moon will be further away from both planets on the 3rd)

basically, since is a very bright object, you need to under-expose quite a bit to get it to look correct, .
But in this case, it shouldn't be much of a problem since it is a very young moon and not much of it is illuminated.
You should still under expose a little though, if you want to get a sharp image of the crescent.
If you're lucky, there will be enough reflected light from the Earth to illuminate the dark part of the moon.

you can see the exif data on these shots; I took these with a point and shoot Sony DSC-H2 (gonna get a good camera one of these days...)
this is a shot I took the other night when the moon was still further away from the 2 planets


The moon and the Pleiades untouched


and this one is a composite of 2 exposures of the same the conjunction

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Anfon says:

with my 70 to 300 mm lense I always seem to get an out of focus moon. The lens in almost new and the camera is sound. I use a tripod and I lock the the lens and I experiment with exposure. I have even gone for the tightest aperture and I still get a fuzzy moon.
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alsay says:

Madinah, Saudi Arabia

blistered.skies says:

here's one from manila, philippines, 10 seconds at f8:.

glassmanme [deleted] says:

I took this one on a frosty clear night!!
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Southern Scene Photography    says:

I shot this with a Canon XTi 70-300 hand held at f5.6 1/640



and this with the Canon XTi 18-55mm f10 at 30 seconds w/tripod



it has been my experience that to capture the detail of the moon I need to use a wider apeture and faster shutter.. To really get the details of the moon and stars one would probably have to take several exposures and merge them.. The moon illumination is so bright a slow enough shutter to capture star detail would probably blow out the moon.. Someone more experienced than I may know a different technique though.. I am just a self taught hobbyist.
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bkingr    says:

I did a double exposure; one for the moon at 1/125 f5.6 and a separate one for the two planets at 4 seconds and f4. Just messing around. have I ever mentioned that I love my camera?



here they are in one shot at 4 seconds and f5.6. the moon is way too overexposed at 4 seconds

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Wandering Skunk Photography says:

One thing to remember with the moon, you are capturing reflected daylight off the moon, so (depending on which aperture you choose) you can use daylight exposures for the moon, 1/125, 1/150 etc...

Overexposing the moon on a night like tonight (12/1/08, crescent moon), can create the pleasing effect of seeing Earthshine in the dark area of the moon, which is what you are seeing in the 2nd frame that bkingr just posted.


I just took this a little while ago:



I broke the "rules" and chose a 50/50 composition on the horizon line because I liked the pleasing sense of balance between Earth and Sky that it gives the image.
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jc_arevalo says:

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcarevalo/3036749625/]

focal length: 200mm

i kinda forgot my shutter speed and my aperture sorry..but i'm pretty sure it's slow..

so about the shot, the moon is pretty small when i took this picture so what i did is i cropped it about 5 times, then sharpened it..so that is what i came..
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Ricky n Rojo says:

I use the exposure calculators as a guide
www.adidap.com/2006/12/06/moon-exposure-calculator/
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SANAND K | സനന്ദ് says:

Smiley - Moon ,Jupiter and Venus .
View from Kochi ,India on Dec 1st 2008.
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Wandering Skunk Photography says:

It's so interesting to see how this formation is viewed differently all over the world.
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jc_arevalo says:

i think if you live near the equator the view would be like more of a smiley face. just my theory..
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Muffet    says:

I took this just as the sun was setting. Venus is the planet nearest the moon in this image.


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Natural Smile Photography™    says:

This is how the smiley face looked in Australia.


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RobDurfee    says:

Here is my rendition of the moon and planets.

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Diyana Kamaruza    says:

my version captured from Malaysia:




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Glass_House    says:

taken Dec. 2nd, after the sky cleared.

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I Love Iraq    says:

This id min I take it in Baghdad - Iraq




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hereandnowphotos.com    says:

Here's 5 taken with different lenses or lens/TC combinations:

1 - taken with a sick Nikon AF-S 300mm f2.8 (sadly it had to go back as it wouldn't meter correctly)



2 - Nikon 70-200 f2.8 VR



3 - Nikon 70-200 f2.8 VR + Sigma 1.4x TC (just to see if it would work at all)



4 - Sigma 120-300 f2.8



5 - Sigma 120-300 f2.8 + Sigma 1.4x TC


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S R W    says:

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Walo Munizaga says:

Viña del Mar Chile

AL-Ghamdiyah    says:

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Brad Chiplin    says:

If you're going to take moon shots...you've pretty much gotta spot meter to get a proper exposure.

Even though this is a double exposure, there was no cropping and the moon was shot handheld



Here's my take on the venus + jupiter + moon.

6 second exposure and they started to trail. I did manage to capture other stars as well though :)


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Mike Black photos    says:

Elisabete64 says:

This was taken before night falls in Caparica, Portugal


later in the dark ;^)

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Guido Musch says:

Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
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Mix Master B    says:

This picture was taken with a 40D Using the live view magnified by x10
The lens was a EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM with a EF x2 Extender. With the crop factor of 1.6 I achieved a focal length of 640mm
The shutter speed was 320th of a second and aperture of f/9
I also very importantly used an ISO of 100 to gain as much detail and less noise as possible.
Focus has to be achieved using manual focus and try and use a remote trigger or delay timer.
Good luck!


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Bent Bahar (",) Check out my Photostream says:

Am glad to Jion this Group :)

this how the moon look at Bahrain .. i took this picture in 12-12-2008

nice date:)

Mike Black photos    says: