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Moon-Saturn Conjunction 11-10-24

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#1 ssmith

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Posted 11 November 2024 - 04:33 PM

I was totally unaware of this event - I was out grabbing some photos of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and I looked at my SkySafari app on my I pad and fortuitously saw that the Moon and Saturn were very close.  When I finished with the comet I swung my C9 around and grabbed a few quick photos. I'm happy that I didn't miss this event.

 

The difference in brightness of Saturn and the Moon made it very challenging to find a happy medium between exposure and ISO to capture both with some level of detail - much more challenging than past conjunctions that I have observed with Jupiter or Mars. Here is one of my results - C9 @ f 6.3 - single frame ISO 200 - 1/30 second.

 

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#2 epsilon160

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Posted 11 November 2024 - 06:29 PM

Well I think this is very cool!!! Nicely done!



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Posted 21 November 2024 - 04:32 PM

Thanks for posting. 

 

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