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j0s2m21 — Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter
Published: 2012-03-19 03:20:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 331; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 0
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It was a really nice night, and so I decided to pack up all of my camera gear and go photograph the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter. (For those that don't know, Venus is the brightest thing in the sky in this picture, and Jupiter is just below and to the left.)I wanted to shoot at the maximum, 15 seconds, and keep the ISO at or under 800, and get a nice gradient from the setting sun. The gradient wasn't as nice as I had hoped for due to an oncoming storm in the distance, but I'll take what I can get!
It took about an hour just waiting around, snapping pictures, and getting ready for the right moment. There may be another shot popping up in a couple of days, in hopes of having a slightly more spectacular sunset.
Anyways, not to toot my own horn, but it's too bad for my first attempt at the conjunction
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very nice! i know the problem with shooting night skies - it can be really time consuming and you have to be lucky 
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Finally, someone that understands what is involved in shooting at night! You are truly a rarity lol! Thank you for your kind words
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the "light at distance" is so often a problem because it prevents some starts from being seen. if you want to do pure night sky photography, you have to go on a hill and shot in the opposite direction of where the sun is setting... and you have to choose the proper day, the proper time, the proper equipment...
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I have a 50mm f/1.8 that works wonderfully, but my 7D is a crop sensor so it's not truly 50mm, and is usually too narrow of a field to do any landscape astronomy shots. The lens I'm using for these shots is a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 and it does the job nicely, but still isn't as fast as the 50mm, still way better than what a kit lens can do. The calculations that go into this stuff are insane!
I found a nice website where you can print a table of sunset and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight for the whole year. It's pretty handy to keep in your car/camera bag. [link] It should work for you in Austria if you follow directions for "Form B."
I look forward to seeing your shot! It's awesome how we can help each other thousands of miles away to shoot essentially the same thing.
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i have a 5D mkII so i have a full frame sensor, so i don't have to worry about the cropping of the image. the depth of field however is a big problem, which i maybe can solve by going up high, so that the nearest point in focus is actually "at infinity" (you know what i mean)
thank you very much for the link, i will check it out right away
and yeah, it's pretty amazing to see how small the distance is between two arbitrary points on earth is compared to a scale used in the universe. i love that kind of thinking
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You're definitely good then lol! I shoot the night images usually around f/4.0 and focus on something about halfway between me and the horizon and it usually works really well!
Not many people think the same way we do, it's always great to meet someone else cut from the same cloth!
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Thank you, it was beautiful in person!
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