St Peter's,the Moon & Jupiter

[Mystical Potato Head]

http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/sat5_photos/IMG_4700flickr1.jpg

Another view of the Moon/Jupiter conjunction.
http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/sat5_photos/IMG_4703flickr1.jpg

http://www.underhighlandskies.com/

[Kenn]

Liking the 1st one MPH.........been playing here with the new camera and managed a few 1/2 decent shots of the conjunction.

[Mystical Potato Head]

Its not the easiest to take a shot of.The full moon is so much brighter than anything else you have in the shot.
The usual mistake is to greatly overexpose the moon so as to show up some detail of the darker parts of the scene.
You can overexpose so long as the moon keeps its shape,if it turns into a big glaring ball then the exposure is probably twice as long
as it should be.
I got lucky with the church one because the moon was behind thin hazy cloud.
The second one was clear and you can see the diffraction spikes,caused naturally by the lens,not a filter.
Its usually a good guide that your focus and exposure are pretty good.
Also the higher the f number,the bigger or more prominent the spikes get.

[Liz]

Beautiful!

The first one would make a great Christmas card. :)

[astroman]

Really like the 1st one MPH. Did you get your feet wet taking the 2nd one?

[Mystical Potato Head]

Managed to keep them dry,just.

[nirofo]

Great shots MPH, you seem to have a way with the night-time shots. I think they would both make good Christmas cards.

nirofo.

[Mystical Potato Head]

Thanks nirofo,if i had to pick a favourite type of photography then it would be night time.