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A good opportunity this coming Friday evening, to shoot the Moon and Mars close together. Weather permitting. See more here:-
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100128/tsc-mars-and-moon-in-heavenly-show-4b158bc.html

Hewwo from windy Sheffy

Thanks for that John,,,,lets hope we get a clear sky around South Yorkshire.

Shine On

sadly i'll be in a comedy club so not a hope of catching it. (not much chance of seeing down Sussex at the mo as the skies are soooo grey and depositing sooo much rain!  :-[)

But good luck to the rest of you

Quote from: Bigbill on January 29, 2010, 09:02:29 AM
Hewwo from windy Sheffy

Thanks for that John,,,,lets hope we get a clear sky around South Yorkshire.

Shine On

Seems like a trip to the Old Horn at High Bradfield should be in order... Unfortunately I'll be at a faux important back slapping do tonight!  :( >:( :(

I'm trying to recall the last time we had clear skies here when any astronomical event was worthy of photographing  :-\

i'll be looking for it later, clear sky so far here.

Met Office predict a clear sky over Lancashire for 9.00pm so a chance to use my Bigma........ :legit:

Well I can actually see it now here in Leeds. Just a reddish light to the left of the moon on a really clear night. Was hoping to get a nice photo but you do have to be at 1bout 100mm to get both in  and it is a clenched fist away at arms length exactly as they said

It's been snowing here non-stop all day.
It's finally stopped now, but the sky is still overcast. Strangely the sky has a strange red glow, but no moon or stars are to be seen.

My fingers are frozen, so's the camera. The sky was clear with some thin cloud, and occasional thicker stuff, all blowing along very quickly. but sooo cold - minus 4 or so but strong bitterly cold wind. Think I got some good shots of the moon, but the camera's screen doesn't show the tiny red dot I could clearly see in the viewfinder. When I thaw out I'll maybe look at them on the PC.

(Dunning, Scotland, 9pm.)

My poor attempt

I wouldn't call that poor Dave. I can now say NONE of my shots worked. I've got some nicely exposed shots of the moon, and lots more at various under and over exposures, but not one of them shows any glimmer of Mars at all - even though it was very clear in my viewfinder.

It's still there in the sky, bright as day - I'm going out for another go.

Heres on of my shots from this evening:

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_IMG_4681.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/IMG_4681.jpg)

I didn't get any decent shots of Mars with or without the moon  :'(

I too didn't get any decent shots of Mars.

These are both a paste up of the Moon and Mars - Heavily cropped and taken with a 400mm lens.

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_IMG_8645%20EOS-1D%20Mark%20III.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/IMG_8645%20EOS-1D%20Mark%20III.jpg)

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_IMG_8656%20EOS-1D%20Mark%20III.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/IMG_8656%20EOS-1D%20Mark%20III.jpg)

The second one, Mars was actually OOF, but shows up a bit better and full size is a bit orange!

When I went out around midnight for the dogs' last chance to do their bit before the night, the sky was clear and I could see both moon and Mars clearly.
However it was too cold and too late for me to be getting out the tripod etc.
I guess I'll never be a serious photographer  :legit:

It's interesting to see what shots you guys got tho.

This is how it looked for me. No matter what I tried, Mars didn't appear in the photo though it was very clear to my naked eye and in the viewfinder. I guess perhaps it was just too small. So I've painted it in here, just how it looked. Maybe from further south they appeared closer together.


(and yes, it was much too cold to spend much time thinking how to improve things.)

Simon, That's why I took two shots and merged them together - the moon was so bright - I think it was 1/500 and f16 @ ISO400 - whereas Mars was about 3 seconds!

It was too cloudy here at 9ish, but just like sara, around midnight-1am taking the dog out the cloud was thin enough to see both, mars was still close to the moon, it would have been a nice pic I think, but the cloud was moving so quickly and getting thicker that I wouldnt have had enough time to get set up, shame because for a few moments the moon was clearly visible but shrouded in cloud with a lovely glow and mars was in a clear patch, might have been enough natural filter to get a shot..  but I was too slow lol..  was nice to see though..

Quotejust like sara

OT - that was my little dog, I'm Carol   ;)  :legit:

Quote from: Sarasocke on January 30, 2010, 01:17:55 PM

Quotejust like sara

OT - that was my little dog, I'm Carol   ;)  :legit:

oops  :P  I knew that  :beer:  :legit:

Had a perfect clear sky here - so where were the snow/sleet flurries coming from?  With the cold, the snow/sleet and the local copper chopper keep getting in the way I rapidly gave up trying to image the scene  :(