The planets Venus and Jupiter put on a show in the sky this morning as sunrise approached. As seen from earth, these two bright planets appeared to pass within 0.3 degrees of each other in the sky. For a closer shot I used a crop sensor camera to get a little more effective zoom out of my lenses, and at 640mm equivalent focal length I was able to resolve four of Jupiter's moons!
I uploaded a wider shot to Flickr, and placed it in the Universe Today group, and moments later +Universe Today had already blogged it. Thanks +Nancy Atkinson! Here's their article:
Spectacular Venus-Jupiter Conjunction Graces the Dawn
http://www.universetoday.com/113980/astrophotos-spectacular-venus-jupiter-conjunction-graces-the-dawn/
You can see more of my photos from this even in my blog post: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2014/08/venus-saturn-conjunction-at-dawn-today.html
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Venus conjunction with Jupiter before dawn on Monday, August 18, 2014.
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GREAT PICTURE….
Awesome!
Thank You for sharing this.
Wonderfull photograph,thank you for sharing this
Ok so I wasn't just seeing things this morning. I haven't seen them so bright before or close together.
Like it very nice
Like it very nice
Good work and great view
Awesome view:)
Wow!!! Beautiful
Oh, that's a beauty!
It called my attention this morning, it's amazing.
It Looks like the rainbow
Woww amazing great capture
Omg, so Good…
I was driving home Monday morning and noticed this in the sky.
Good one +Jeff Sullivan
Very beautiful scene. Thank you very much +Jeff Sullivan
Ooooooooh err….. thankyou….. its a show alright….these 2 are shining bright like the colossal diamonds that they are…
Very cool!!
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That is buetiful sunset
hermosa imagen 🙂
Woww
Excellent share.
Fantastic +Jeff Sullivan
I'm glad you like it +Fraser Cain, I caught it at 400mm as well on my Canon 70D (equivalent to 640 mm focal length on a full frame 35mm sensor), so I was able to resolve four of Jupiter's moons: https://plus.google.com/photos/+JeffreySullivan/albums/5742407635442467969/6049308467690032274?pid=6049308467690032274&oid=107459220492917008623
beautiful !!!
I got to see this.!
Thanks everyone! +Maddy Brown They'll still be good for a few more mornings. On the morning of the 23rd before dawn, the crescent moon will join them to form a triangle in the sky. I'm setting an alarm for that one!
+Jeff Sullivan Awesome I will too.Thank you for your time.
Start looking around 5 am +Maddy Brown: https://twitter.com/jeffsullphoto/status/502036790401073152
+Jeff Sullivan Thanks.My first time on twitter.Haha.
+Jeff Sullivan Don't mean to b a bother.What timezone are you in.I'm in central.
The time will be more or less the same in your local time zone +Maddy Brown. You can look up your local moon rise time in a free program like +The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) on a PC. If your horizon isn't exactly level you may see it cross your apparent horizon maybe 10 – 15 minutes later, then Venus will join a short while after that.
For smartphones you can buy a copy of TPE for iOS or Android, or +PhotoPills for IOS. You can actually correct for the apparent horizon using those programs to predict when you'll see the moon, to within a minute or two. Other programs like Star Walk and SkySafari focus on comprehensive views of the night sky, and you can dial them forward in date and time to see celestial objects rise and set, or you can select the objects to see rise times (for a zero degree horizon elevation):
PhotoPills: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photopills/id596026805?mt=8&uo=4&at=10ldnC
The Photographers Ephemeris: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-photographers-ephemeris/id366195670?mt=8&uo=4&at=10ldnC
StarWalk: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/star-walk-5-stars-astronomy/id295430577?mt=8&uo=4&at=10ldnC
SkySafari 4+: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skysafari-4-plus/id766939884?mt=8&uo=4&at=10ldnC
exelente fotografia
Thanks again +Universe Today, this photo / post was viewed 55480 times so far. I hope that a bunch of folks followed the link to your blog for the better photo!