Star Gazing
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@nzzp Moon was almost straight overhead so tripod was useless but did get a number of cool photos with ISO at the highest I could go without noise (2400)
More a muddy brown than a blood red but still impressive. I preferred the eclipse to the blood moon. Made a mistake by walking up the hill to try and get something to frame the shot and give some perspective but there was increased background light. Was better off in my back yard. Would have loved to have viewed it from out in the Gulf.
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Some of the photos on the Stuff link below are seriously impressive. Given this was the first time a blood supermoon had happened in 40 years it was worthwhile watching.
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Scene from the beach this a.m. Red sky in the morning ... plus ...
Starting from the bottom...
Venus
Neptune you can't see
Jupiter
Mars (if you look closely at the top of the shot).NeptuneSaturn was further up and quite visible but not to the phone camera (And not in frame anywsy) -
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Scene from the beach this a.m. Red sky in the morning ... plus ...
Starting from the bottom...
Venus
Neptune you can't see
Jupiter
Mars (if you look closely at the top of the shot).Neptune was further up and quite visible but not to the phone camera (And not in frame anywsy)
Amazing!
Shot with?
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@voodoo said in Star Gazing:
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Scene from the beach this a.m. Red sky in the morning ... plus ...
Starting from the bottom...
Venus
Neptune you can't see
Jupiter
Mars (if you look closely at the top of the shot).Neptune was further up and quite visible but not to the phone camera (And not in frame anywsy)
Amazing!
Shot with?
The photo is actually barely adequate. Taken with my phone. Samsung Galaxy S8. Which is like mumble years old. No special exposures or anything.
Just shows how awesome these planets are showing up at the moment.
Seriously peeps get up early and have a look (then go back to bed ... ).
This shot does not do it justice.
Timestamp for this at 5:17 a.m.
The fact that the stars ... planets ... show so clearly on the phone camera speaks volumes for how bright they are irl.
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@booboo said in Star Gazing:
@voodoo said in Star Gazing:
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Scene from the beach this a.m. Red sky in the morning ... plus ...
Starting from the bottom...
Venus
Neptune you can't see
Jupiter
Mars (if you look closely at the top of the shot).Neptune was further up and quite visible but not to the phone camera (And not in frame anywsy)
Amazing!
Shot with?
The photo is actually barely adequate. Taken with my phone. Samsung Galaxy S8. Which is like mumble years old. No special exposures or anything.
Just shows how awesome these planets are showing up at the moment.
Seriously peeps get up early and have a look (then go back to bed ... ).
This shot does not do it justice.
Timestamp for this at 5:17 a.m.
The fact that the stars ... planets ... show so clearly on the phone camera speaks volumes for how bright they are irl.
I'll have a look just as soon as I get the cat to move from under the telescope....
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@booboo said in Star Gazing:
@voodoo said in Star Gazing:
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Scene from the beach this a.m. Red sky in the morning ... plus ...
Starting from the bottom...
Venus
Neptune you can't see
Jupiter
Mars (if you look closely at the top of the shot).Neptune was further up and quite visible but not to the phone camera (And not in frame anywsy)
Amazing!
Shot with?
The photo is actually barely adequate. Taken with my phone. Samsung Galaxy S8. Which is like mumble years old. No special exposures or anything.
Just shows how awesome these planets are showing up at the moment.
Seriously peeps get up early and have a look (then go back to bed ... ).
This shot does not do it justice.
Timestamp for this at 5:17 a.m.
The fact that the stars ... planets ... show so clearly on the phone camera speaks volumes for how bright they are irl.
I have a Samsung 21 or 22 or something. The photo quality is great, super sharp with no effort. But I can't get it to capture colour like you have. I mean, I've never actually tried to figure it out, but the point and shoot method just delivers watered down colours at superb clarity
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@voodoo said in Star Gazing:
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
@voodoo said in Star Gazing:
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Scene from the beach this a.m. Red sky in the morning ... plus ...
Starting from the bottom...
Venus
Neptune you can't see
Jupiter
Mars (if you look closely at the top of the shot).Neptune was further up and quite visible but not to the phone camera (And not in frame anywsy)
Amazing!
Shot with?
The photo is actually barely adequate. Taken with my phone. Samsung Galaxy S8. Which is like mumble years old. No special exposures or anything.
Just shows how awesome these planets are showing up at the moment.
Seriously peeps get up early and have a look (then go back to bed ... ).
This shot does not do it justice.
Timestamp for this at 5:17 a.m.
The fact that the stars ... planets ... show so clearly on the phone camera speaks volumes for how bright they are irl.
I have a Samsung 21 or 22 or something. The photo quality is great, super sharp with no effort. But I can't get it to capture colour like you have. I mean, I've never actually tried to figure it out, but the point and shoot method just delivers watered down colours at superb clarity
Sheer luck.
Thought it would be too dark but took a punt.
Often take snaps of the sunrise on my morning walks.
They don't always reflect what I'm seeing but this was good.
In portrait mode though (by necessity to get the planets in). (And I really didn't think they'd show up at all.)
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A triple meteoric spectacle is set to grace our skies this weekend
Looking for something spectacular to brighten a cold, dark winter's night? Well, this weekend might just have something in store: not one, not two, but three meteor showers active at the same time — combining to provide a celestial firework display almost all through the night.
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@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Junior and I just drove down the road to a place of slightly less light pollution.
Saw a couple of streaks in half an hour.
So that was ok. Just.
Woke up just now in the middle of the night. Ducked my head out the door and it's clouded over. Bed time (not that we need a wicket atm).
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