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06/25/2005 01:32:10 AM · #1 |
Has anybody tried shooting the planet conjunction tonight? I tryed this for the first time tonight in practice for tomorrow night when they're really close. I used a tripod firmly planted on asphalt, mirror lockup, and remote. I shot at 6 seconds at f2.8 ISO 100 at 200mm. Any suggestions to make it sharper tomorrow night? The focus was perfect, but there's some fuzziness around the planets, and a little bit of "star-trail" that I didn't think was possible for only 6 seconds. Thanks. Here's what I got:
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06/25/2005 02:01:13 AM · #2 |
Oh cool, saved me the trip tomorrow =) One q, though: if mercury is on the right, how come it seems to be the farthest from the sun, which seems to have set in the left part of the image?
Very good shot, too. Especially like the composition.
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06/25/2005 10:45:54 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by yurasocolov:
...if mercury is on the right, how come it seems to be the farthest from the sun, which seems to have set in the left part of the image? |
You have to think in three dimensions. The sun is on the left, but mercury and venus are much closer to us front-back on the Z axis, with saturn VERY far in the background. |
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